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
On 2025-03-20 16:31, Peter Whisker wrote:
Hi
Recently I cloned one of my MicroVAX 7.3 simh servers and removed DECnet
phase IV from it (which works perfectly) and installed DECnet-Plus from
the distribution. I set it up with the same details as for Phase IV and
configured the same MAC and area/node – clearly I will not bootboth at
the same time! The simh setup is identical for both version of the
server apart for my having increased memory from 128M to 256M to see if
that helped (it didn’t).
It sort-of works, there is connectivity and adjacencies as I would
expect but it is extremely slow. If I “set host” to another machine, or
from another machine to it, it works extremely slowly, I see 3 second
retries happening all the time.
The command “SHOW NSP LOCAL NSAP <local_nsap> REMOTE NSAP *
retransmitted pdus, duplicate pdus received” suggested here https://
community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-openvms/very-bad-performance-over-
native-decnet/td-p/5000605 <https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-
system-openvms/very-bad-performance-over-native-decnet/td-p/5000605>
shows the retransmit count going up.
The adjacencies are on ethernet LAN – has anyone got any experience of
this problem which might suggest what is happening?
Thanks
Peter
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