7 Sep
2025
7 Sep
'25
11:15 p.m.
On Sep 7, 2025, at 11:21 AM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
Well, your doing the calculation wrong. Or rather, the calculation as such is correct,
but you have the byte order wrong. :)
But yes, when VMS boots, it is supposed to change the MAC address anyway, and so it
supposedly (hopefully) don't matter, as simh is trying to emulate the MAC address
change correctly.
pydecnet -M <nodeaddress> will give you the corresponding MAC address. And yes, the
last two bytes are the node address, little endian of course like all things in DECnet.
:-)
The reason for setting the MAC address up front is to deal with environments where a
custom address works if set ahead of time, but things get confused if it's changed in
the middle.
paul