[HECnet] DECnet-VAX V3.0, VMS V3.5 (Was Re: Oldest VAX/VMS for VAX-11/730 on HECNET)

On Dec 15, 2021, at 7:00 PM, Supratim Sanyal <supratim at riseup.net> wrote: OK, so I fired up a VAX/VMS 3.5 node and gave it the address 42 (just a coincidence, not an answer to any question). I demoted it to an end-node on a dedicated virtual ethernet adapter for the circuit with DECnet/Python. No adjacency is established. A tshark indicates DECnet-VAX V3.0 is appearing as 1.42 on the wire. Since there is no way to ask DECnet-VAX V3.0 to pretend it is 31.42, I am not sure what the next step, if any, might be to hook this up to my area on HECnet. tshark dump is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/40hvr4x6iq3esl8/tshark-31.12-31.42-DECnet-VAX-V3.… <https://www.dropbox.com/s/40hvr4x6iq3esl8/tshark-31.12-31.42-DECnet-VAX-V3.0.tar.bz2?dl=0> . Maybe Paul has some advice? Note: When DECnet-VAX V3.0 was configured as a L1 router, it oscillated between "circuit up" and "line fault" every few seconds. $ mc ncp show exec char Node Volatile Characteristics as of 14-DEC-1984 23:46:34 Executor node = 42 (XXXV)