5 Sep
2025
5 Sep
'25
7:57 p.m.
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(a)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 is just 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
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To unsubscribe send an email to hecnet-leave(a)lists.dfupdate.se On Sep 5, 2025, at 1:14 PM, Johnny Billquist
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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:
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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 another node 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(a)softjar.se
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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 a bit
> 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 shows the
> 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 the other
> machines are UNA-0 (UNIBUS) and this one is of course QNA-0 Couldthis
> be the problem?
>
> Brian.
>
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