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 but to 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 Could this be the problem?

Brian.