On 2025-09-05 20:04, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I've seen issues sometimes, but I don't know the full extent of what the
> exact results might be.
>
> But don't matter. Now we know they are all simh instances.
>
>    Johnny
>
> On 2025-09-05 19:57, Paul Koning wrote:
>> I thought SQE failure is only a warning and would not stop the device
>> from working.
>>
>>     pul
>>
>>> On Sep 5, 2025, at 1:27 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>wrote:
>>>
>>> That's one possibility. Another if he's running on some kind of
>>> emulator on a system that don't actually allow programmatic change of
>>> the MAC address, and you need to set the MAC correctly in the
>>> emulator before starting up. And if it is real hardware, is it
>>> connected to some switch then?10baseT? Does he have an adapter that
>>> can do SQE?
>>>
>>> There are many possible ways things could not work. What we can see
>>> isjust that incoming broadcast/multicast packets work, but so far
>>> nothing else.
>>>
>>>   Johnny
>>>
>>> On 2025-09-05 19:22, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>> Is it WiFi?  That doesn't work with DECnet MAC addresses (it doesn't
>>>> like it when the NIC changes its address to aa-00-04-00-xx-yy).
>>>> paul
>>>>> On Sep 5, 2025, at 1:14 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, GEEZER (31.278) is not seeing 31.282 as up. So that's why you
>>>>> have a problem. This usually means that packets are working in one
>>>>> direction, but not the other.
>>>>>
>>>>> Was this a real machine? How have you connected it to the rest of
>>>>> the network?
>>>>>
>>>>>   Johnny
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-09-05 18:45, Brian Roth wrote:
>>>>>> The address is 31.282. No File access, Phone or NCP Tell to other
>>>>>> nodes but it is still able to go out and find a router. It
>>>>>> (31.282) can phone itself and set host but other nodes it just
>>>>>> hangs. If I phone anothernode it will just sit at "Establishing
>>>>>> Decnet Link and then error to "Node is not reachable.
>>>>>> Brian.
>>>>>> On Friday, September 5, 2025 at 12:38:11 PM EDT, Johnny Billquist
>>>>>> <bqt@softjar.se <mailto:bqt@softjar.se>> wrote:
>>>>>> No. Qbus ethernet or Unibus ethernet makes no difference here.
>>>>>> Does anything else work? NCP to other nodes? Phone? File access?
>>>>>> What's the address of that microvax?
>>>>>> Johnny
>>>>>> On 2025-09-05 17:59, Brian Roth wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello, I currently have 8 simh vax machines on Hecnet all working
>>>>>>> fine.
>>>>>>> Its a mix of machines running VMS 3.5 to 7.3 and while some were
>>>>>>> abit
>>>>>>> of a challenge they all talk. I recently configured a Microvax II
>>>>>>> with
>>>>>>> MicroVMS 4.6 as well as Decnet 4.6 and assigned it to my area 31.
>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>> network loads without errors and I am able to SET HOST to itself
>>>>>>> butto
>>>>>>> no other nodes in my area or vice versa. SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS
>>>>>>> showsthe
>>>>>>> hosts I manually defined. SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS CHARACTERISTICS showsa
>>>>>>> designated router in my area so its finding that. If I bring a
>>>>>>> router
>>>>>>> node down it successfully finds another in the area.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The microvax node:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Known Circuit Volatile Characteristics as of  5-SEP-1987 11:37:16
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Circuit = QNA-0
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> State                         = on
>>>>>>> Service                     = disabled
>>>>>>> Designated router     = 31.278
>>>>>>> Cost                          =4
>>>>>>> Router priority           =64
>>>>>>> Hello timer                = 15
>>>>>>> Type                       = Ethernet
>>>>>>> Adjacent node         =31.278
>>>>>>> Listen timer              = 45
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The working nodes match with the exception of the circuit. All
>>>>>>> theother
>>>>>>> machines are UNA-0 (UNIBUS) and this one is of course QNA-0 
>>>>>>> Couldthis
>>>>>>> be the problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Brian.
>>>>>>>
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