[HECnet] Re: pydecnet on LinuxMint

Thank you foryourfeedback Yes,the KLH10istancesall run on thsame Linux Mint host that runs the apydecanet router calledKSKAL,and I haveno additioal hardware on that internal segment which lookslike this now: oot@kaskal:/home/andersa# brctl show bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces bridge0 8000.26d039e4c0f4 no tap1 tap2 tap3 If that doesn't indicate that thethreetap interfaceshavbeen addedto the bridge,I don't know what does. Are there any other diagnostics you want me to check? I dont know whether the following add anything relevant: root@kaskal:/home/andersa# ifconfig bridge0 bridge0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.9.78 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.9.255 inet6 fe80::4cf6:1fff:fe01:f257 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 26:d0:39:e4:c0:f4 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 557072 bytes 143985475 (143.9 MB) RX errors 0 dropped 450854 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 106193 bytes 4586565 (4.5 MB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 root@kaskal:/home/andersa# ifconfig tap1 tap1: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::6032:eff:fedb:7b94 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 ether 62:32:0e:db:7b:94 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 176227 bytes 46414104 (46.4 MB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 318825 bytes 90356527 (90.3 MB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 root@kaskal:/home/andersa# ip tuntap show tap0: tap persist tap1: tap tap2: tap tap3: tap The threeTOPS-20 hosts arealso awareof and can communicate with each other. When I run tcpdump -i bridge0 I do see DECnet, DEC LAT and TCP/IP ARP traffic to or from the three TOPS-20 hosts pass by,according to the ethertype code as well as decoding done by tcpdump. The KLH10 instances obtain their tap interfaces as part of their startup configuration, so I have to restart them whenever I have reset the bridge which I haven't done in a few days now. This is a sample net device onfiguration line from one host: devdef ni0 564 ni20 dedic=true ifc=tap2 ifmeth=tap+bridge ipaddr=192.168.9.72 dpdelay=3 The number of the interface specified with ifc= doesn't seem to matter the machine still gets assigned the next unassiged tap interface in order.And it did work previously. Eventually I hope to put all the bridge and pydecnet configuration into a hecnet.service file andstart it from systemd. Now I plan to restartpydecnet while logging bridg0 traffic using tcpdmpto see what comes up. /AndersAndersson