On 3/2/2026 6:17 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2026-03-02 18:42, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
On 3/2/2026 10:44 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Hm. The command "MNC SET CIR IP-0-5 MODE DDCMP" should have given a warning that this has been deprecated. In essence, it does nothing.

All links are just multinet links, which is DDCMP, with a small header to just get whole packets when using TCP.

  Johnny


That explains the "MLTNET" in Marks error log.  So, if I set up the phDECnet circuit as a Multinet one is should work?

Sortof yes, but no.
The errors are because RSX is receiving packets without that multinet header.


I misunderstood.  But figured because changing to Multinet on pyDECnet side did not make any difference.  Mark just gets a different error


> 10:45:36  MLTNET - IP-0-5 TCP ACCEPT failure. IOSB=-37

Oh, well.  Time to fire up a local SimH RSX node and see if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks!

What I meant with the above was this:


.mnc set cir ip-0-3 mode ddcmp
MODE have been deprecated.
Please update any configuration scripts.
.


You should have gotten those errors in RSX when doing the command. But yes, also, the fact that you set your PyDECnet side to talk DDCMP caused the errors when receiving packets.

Mark has it in his startup script I assume.  It's probably been a while since that system was booted so he my have forgotten or didn't notice.

On 02/03/2026 17.38, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I don't think I've ever tried that DDCMP mode. I don't even remember what it does...

Why are you wanting to use it?

   Johnny


Because that's what I was told needed to be done to connect to other HECnet nodes?  Mark has several set up that way and so does Supratim.

Whoever said that is confused and wrong. Sorry. You need to set up Multinet links.

  Johnny


Regards,
   John H. Reinhardt