On 12/9/21 2:29 AM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Dec 8, 2021, at 11:18 PM, Supratim
Sanyal<supratim at riseup.net> wrote:
Looks like it. The lowest I could go so far is 31.31 (XLIV) @ 4.4. We should try 3.4+
with the key sometime.
I tried 3.5 with the license installed, and then upgraded it
to 3.7 and tried again. It asks for an address in the range 1..1023, but I didn't see
any way to specify an area. When I tried starting the network in any of them, I got errors
like:
> $ @startnet
> %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0001000E
> %OPCOM, 8-DEC-2021 18:33:36.97, message from user DECNET
> DECnet starting
> %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Invalid parameter value, Maximum address
> Executor node = 2.617 (PUGGLE)
>
> %RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0001000C
> %NCP-I-NMLRSP, listener response - Invalid parameter value, Maximum address
> Executor node = 2.617 (PUGGLE)
>
maybe it will be happy with some address <=255, or <=128. it is very
promising you got this far, though. I will try it too once I am happy
with the PDP-11/93 with two DEQNAs and 4 DUP lines that is keeping me
awake on the east coast.
regards,
Supratim
In that case I had type in my 2.617 address without
paying enough attention to the prompt asking for a number in the range 1..1023. I got the
same kinds of errors after I reconfigured with an address of 617.
4.0 was the first version that prompted me for a regular Phase IV address, and it gave me
errors like:
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process
is 0000004A
$
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 8-DEC-2021 19:23:45.49 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user DECNET
DECnet event 4.19, adjacency down, operator initiated
From node 2.617 (PUGGLE), 8-DEC-2021 19:23:45.49
Circuit UNA-0, Adjacent node address out of range
Packet beginning = 0B020000AA000400BB0A024F0240000A
I speculate that it was reacting poorly to traffic it saw on my local network, between my
router LABRDR and my nodes HUSKY and BULDOG which were up?
4.7 is working well, but I have not tried any other versions between 4.0 and 4.7 yet.
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