I have DECnet Phase V set up on my x86 community package running VMS 9.2-2, mainly because it did not come with Phase IV. That pushed me into learning Phase V "stuff" after 30 years of managing to avoid it.

I do find that it takes a few minutes after booting for it to recognise that Phase IV nodes exist on the LAN, but that it works at a sensible speed after that.

I only have the one Phase V system, but several Phase IV systems, so perhaps it is expecting to find other phase V nodes "out there" and getting confused when there are none.

Cheers

Peter Allan

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 at 22:01, Zane Healy <healyzh@avanthar.com> wrote:

On Mar 20, 2025, at 9:50 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:

I've never heard of that problem that I can remember. But I do know that in general Phase V can be considered a significant downgrade to phase IV.

Not sure why anyone really would want to run it. But there are some who do.

Johnny

I have to agree. MONK originally ran Phase V, and I *upgraded* it to Phase IV something like 25 years ago.

Zane

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