Ok. I now have my Multinet circuits set up on MIM. Only UDP at the
moment, but who would like to peer with me, and reduce the size of the
bridge?
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Well, about a month since my last announcement, and some improvements
have been done, so I figured I should do another one.
I've cut a new release of TCP/IP for RSX, and I encourage everyone to
update to this latest release.
A short list of changes since my last release:
TCP:
. Added functionality for future DECnet tunnels.
UDP:
. Bugfix in write. The second word of the IOSB was always zero, but
should be the number of bytes written. Fixed now.
. Added functionality for DECnet tunnels.
. Improved user AST generation to use less resources.
FTP/FTPD:
. Bugfix in RSX transfer mode, which could become corrupted under some
circumstances.
. Added some more error checking and messages.
TELNET:
. Changed code so that it can properly managed the number of devices to
create. Now controlled by a logical name.
DECnet over IP:
. This is the big change that comes with this release. It is now
possible to have DECnet over IP, in a Multinet-compatible
implementation. Right now, this only works over UDP, but TCP will come
later. There are still probably a couple of rough corners to improve,
but this should be possible to use by anyone, and I have written
documentation for this. I'm very interested to hear someone else try to
install and use it, to find any issues with the installation.
If someone wants to use this, I'm happy to act as a peer for them. Just
let me know.
As usual, the distribution is available from:
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk
The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
Note! I've realized that BQTCP/IP do not work right if you have a
PDP-11/74 with multiple processors online. I'll fix that at some point,
as it's probably just a case of affinity not being set on devices, nor
relevant processes. This might only be a problem with telnet in fact. I
know for sure that the IP and TCP drivers works ok in multiprocessor
systems.
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Just FYI. It is slightly interesting and informing:
15-JAN-16 03:44:30 Node: MIM (1.13) "RSX system at Update, Sweden"
RSX-11M-Plus, Area Routing Node, DECnet V4.6
Area Circuit Hop/Cst Next Node Area Circuit Hop/Cst Next Node
2 IP-0-0 1/1 LEGATO( 2.1)
3 IP-0-0 2/3 LEGATO( 2.1)
7 UNA-0 2/7 SG1 (19.41)
8 UNA-0 1/3 GORVAX( 8.400)
12 UNA-0 2/13 ( 1.1023)
14 UNA-0 1/3 SKHNGW(14.4)
18 IP-0-0 2/3 LEGATO( 2.1)
19 UNA-0 1/3 SG1 (19.41)
22 UNA-0 2/23 HUB (42.1022)
23 UNA-0 2/13 ( 1.1023)
33 IP-0-0 2/3 LEGATO( 2.1)
39 IP-0-0 2/3 LEGATO( 2.1)
42 UNA-0 1/3 HUB (42.1022)
44 UNA-0 1/3 A44RTR(44.1023)
59 IP-0-0 2/3 LEGATO( 2.1)
61 UNA-0 2/23 HUB (42.1022)
62 UNA-0 1/3 CTAKAH(62.637)
- Total areas: 17-
Notice the number of areas that MIM now decided should go over IP-0-0,
which is the link to LEGATO. Since I set the cost for that link to 1,
while ethernet is at 3, it is rather favored. Not sure it really makes
sense to route packets to area 59 that way, since going over ethernet, I
would have a direct ptp to area 59 through a Cisco router sitting right
next to MIM, but that then becomes a question of what the cost of the
link between 1.1023 and area 59 is set to.
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
I'm looking for data sheet, shematics, SW, etc for MicroNova and the
Mn601 and MN602 chip.
Also looking for register programming of Fairchild F9443, F9444, F9446, F9447
F9448 and F9449.
-P
I would like to test my multnet link against some VMS machine. Anyone
around that could enable UDP multinet to me?
(I tried Paul's python implementation, but I have some issues with it,
so I'd like to test against something else.)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Is anyone running Phase-V of DECnet? I am looking to convert SGC:: to run it. I will definitely need help. I am way out of practice!!!
-Steve
Sent from my iPhone
I have a small request:
On nodes that run Multinet tunnels AND talks to Johnnys bridge with a
ethernet interface put the cost of 5 on the Multinet link and cost
20 on their Ethernet facing the bridge?
What hopfullt hapens is that traffic becomes symetric inside each domain..
-P
Hey folks. All traffic on all of my DECnet tunnels seems to have
dropped dead around 3PM yesterday. I've been dicking around with my
router's configuration all week, but in an unrelated area (IP NAT
configuration) so I'm pretty sure I didn't break it. Any thoughts as to
what might be going on?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hey Johnny, have you thought about adding lpr/lpd support to your IP
stack? In particular I'd love to have the ability to print from an RSX
system to a networked printer.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
