[HECnet] SIMH IDLE (again)

You'll have to forgive me, I'm not entirely familiar with how networking on VMS works at this level. I'm not hugely familiar with it myself either. I only know enough to be dangerous :-) Can you setup something that uses pseudo devices but doesn't require promiscuous mode and see if that works? If so then I think we can definitely narrow it down to your promiscuous theory. If that's the case it just then becomes a question of is the issue with the pseudo devices themselves or the way PCAP is setting them up? As I understand it, when VMS initially detects an ethernet adapter, it creates a template device, such as EWA0 for example. As soon as something want's to use the adapter for something, a pseudodevice is cloned from the template device. For example, when DECnet is started, it creates a pseudodevice called EWA2. When the Multinet IP stack is started, it creates another two pseudodevices, EWA4 and EWA6, one to handle IP and one to handle ARP. Another pseudodevice handles cluster traffic. Each pseudodevice handles a particular ethernet protocol type. There is no problem with DECnet, IP and cluster traffic, for example sharing the same ethernet adapter. I don't know how PCAP-VMS interacts with this model. What it wants to do does not seem a good fit for the way the model was designed. I have no idea what I'm talking about, by the way. Just thinking out loud. :) I don't know much about this either. As I said, just enough to be dangerous :-) One day I may get around to researching it in more detail. I'd also like to find a way to use networking on SIMH running without requiring privileges on the host machine. Until I can do that, I am not likely to do very much with it anyway other than some limited testing on a sacrifical system. Regards, Peter Coghlan.