9 Jun
2019
9 Jun
'19
3:08 a.m.
OK. I did have two ethernet adapters configured for each server. I
disabled the second one. But, worse, in the simh ini file, both servers
had the same MAC addresses associated with their ethernet adapters. I am
not sure how this ever worked.
I am still checking things and will start working on that PDP-11 default
thing shortly.
Kurt
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 8:47 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
Oh, and by the way... Do you have two physical,
separate ethernets?
Because otherwise you might be in even more trouble, as you have two
ethernet interfaces defined on MOE, and they both see LARRY. If you
actually have two ethernet networks between the two machines, then
everything is fine. Otherwise you are actually very messed up.
Johnny
On 2019-06-09 02:45, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Maybe not much comfort, but MOE isn't using
the multinet link to LARRY
either, but is also talking over ethernet.
Johnny
On 2019-06-09 02:36, Kurt Hamm wrote:
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Ugh. Back to work.
I did see some errors....
Kurt
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 8:35 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
Well, just taking a peek at CURLY, I can also tell that you have not
managed to get the multinet links up and running, but are
communicating
with DECnet over ethernet. :-)
Johnny
On 2019-06-09 02:20, Kurt Hamm wrote:
-- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se> ||
Reading murder books
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That's it! Everything works great. I have
the node list and can
access
reachable nodes from the PDP-11.
This is just really wonderful.
As a thank you, I will leave the mailing list alone for a
while. ha!
Kurt
On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 6:42 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se>
<mailto:bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at
softjar.se>>> wrote:
Ok, a quick rundown on some of the more esoteric details
about lines
and
circuits might be useful here.
First of all, Kurt, you might want to redo the NETGEN and not
set the
system up for DECnet routing. It takes a lot
of resources,
and if you
don't really want it, you are much better
off with a system
not even
generated for it.
The question about remote nodes are just for an initial
population of
your local nodename database. All you need
there is really to
define
MIM
(1.13). You can then copy the whole nodename database from
MIM over to
your machine that way instead. Let me know if
you want some
details on
that step.
On 2019-06-08 22:25, Mark Matlock wrote:
> Kurt,
> If you want two circuits like UNA-0 and IP-0-0 I
think you
have to
> be a routing node (but not an area router).
Not really, but maybe. If you define multiple circuits, and
are an
end-node, only one circuit will be active.
But others can
exist, and
the
system will fall back to some other circuit if the active one
goes
down.
So it can be used as a back connection.
However, even as an end-node, you can have several *lines*
on and
active
at the same time. And this is a trick to use if you want
DECnet-over-IP,
but want to be an endnode. You need ethernet for TCP/IP to
work, but
you
do not want DECnet to use the ethernet circuit.
But you configure one IP line as well, and that is the one
DECnet will
be using. Meanwhile, TCP/IP is using the
ethernet line.
It might sound a little confusing, but think about it for a
second, and
I hope it becomes clear. Otherwise, just ask,
and I'll try to
explain it
better.
> Also, you should define all the nodes you want to talk
to with
NCP in
> one of the startup files or do it with CFE but I prefer
startup
so it?s
> simple to change.
I would actually say that you wouldn't. Of course, there is
nothing
wrong in doing this, but if you want the full
HECnet nodename
database,
it contains 700 nodes. That will take a while
to type in.
However, you can copy the nodename database from another
DECnet node,
and then use this.
But you need at least the nodename of someone where you will
be copying
from to start with, which is why I suggested
adding MIM at
the start.
After that, there is [5,54]NNC which is the nodename
collector task.
Run
it, collect names from another node, and build a new database
with
this.
Then stop and restart the node name server, and you have all
the nodes
defined.
(The node name server is managed by the command SCP.
So, SCP STOP followed by SCP START will do it.)
Johnny
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Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>
<mailto:bqt
at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> ||
Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" -
B.
Idol