5 Sep
2025
5 Sep
'25
7:27 p.m.
That's one possibility. Another if he's running on some kind of emulator
on a system that don't actually allow programmatic change of the MAC
address, and you need to set the MAC correctly in the emulator before
starting up. And if it is real hardware, is it connected to some switch
then? 10baseT? Does he have an adapter that can do SQE?
There are many possible ways things could not work. What we can see is
just that incoming broadcast/multicast packets work, but so far nothing
else.
Johnny
On 2025-09-05 19:22, Paul Koning wrote:
Is it WiFi? That doesn't work with DECnet MAC
addresses (it doesn't
like it when the NIC changes its address to aa-00-04-00-xx-yy).
paul
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On Sep 5, 2025, at 1:14 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt(a)softjar.se> wrote:
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:
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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(a)softjar.se <mailto: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:
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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 showsa
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?
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