Well, GEEZER (31.278) is not seeing 31.282 as up. So that's why you have
a problem. This usually means that packets are working in one direction,
but not the other.

Was this a real machine? How have you connected it to the rest of the
network?

  Johnny

On 2025-09-05 18:45, Brian Roth wrote:
> The address is 31.282. No File access, Phone or NCP Tell to other nodes
> but it is still able to go out and find a router. It (31.282) can phone
> itself and set host but other nodes it just hangs. If I phone another
> node it will just sit at "Establishing Decnet Link and then error to
> "Node is not reachable.
>
> Brian.
>
> On Friday, September 5, 2025 at 12:38:11 PM EDT, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt@softjar.se> wrote:
>
>
> No. Qbus ethernet or Unibus ethernet makes no difference here.
>
> Does anything else work? NCP to other nodes? Phone? File access?
>
> What's the address of that microvax?
>
>    Johnny
>
> On 2025-09-05 17:59, Brian Roth wrote:
>  > Hello, I currently have 8 simh vax machines on Hecnet all working fine.
>  > Its a mix of machines running VMS 3.5 to 7.3 and while some were a bit
>  > of a challenge they all talk. I recently configured a Microvax II with
>  > MicroVMS 4.6 as well as Decnet 4.6 and assigned it to my area 31. The
>  > network loads without errors and I am able to SET HOST to itself butto
>  > no other nodes in my area or vice versa. SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS shows the
>  > hosts I manually defined. SHOW KNOWN CIRCUITS CHARACTERISTICS shows a
>  > designated router in my area so its finding that. If I bring a router
>  > node down it successfully finds another in the area.
>  >
>  > The microvax node:
>  >
>  > Known Circuit Volatile Characteristics as of  5-SEP-1987 11:37:16
>  >
>  > Circuit = QNA-0
>  >
>  > State                         = on
>  > Service                     = disabled
>  > Designated router     = 31.278
>  > Cost                          =4
>  > Router priority           =64
>  > Hello timer                = 15
>  > Type                        = Ethernet
>  > Adjacent node          =31.278
>  > Listen timer              = 45
>  >
>  > The working nodes match with the exception of the circuit. All the other
>  > machines are UNA-0 (UNIBUS) and this one is of course QNA-0  Couldthis
>  > be the problem?
>  >
>  > Brian.
>
>  >
>  >
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