That reminds me, if someone has a turnkey RSX or RSTS box around (that I could just plug in to SIMH and play with), ideally with DECNET support, please let me know. I feel so out of the loop with all this pre-my-actual-physical birth chatter. Sampsa On 27 Oct 2012, at 04:31, Johnny Billquist wrote: So, are both of your simulated machines on the same physical machine? And how are you connected to the rest of HECnet? Johnny On 2012-10-27 02:33, Cory Smelosky wrote: Okay, I have OpenVMS and RSTS/E both installed with DECnet configured, and the simulated VAX is acting as a level 1 router (as far as I know, anyway I set it to act as a router in netconfig). However, neither the emulated VAX nor the emulated PDP-11 can SET HOST to each other, and the simulated PDP-11 cannot reach the rest of HECnet. They both show adjacency status changes for each other. DIR GEWT:: on the RSTS/E system (I'll call it GEWT1 for simplicity sake) prompts me for a password, and an invalid password results in OPCOM messages about invalid logins from its address (33.301). DIR GEWT1:: just results in -SYSTEM-F-UNREACHABLE, remote node is not currently reachable. I ran tcpdump to see if packets were going anywhere, and they were. https://www.refheap.com/paste/27fd44fa3ea5af2935eef8915 Is there something really obvious i'm missing? Please let me know, still learning my way around here. ;) (the networking setup: OpenVMS in SIMH in a FreeBSD VM that is bridged with the host (using bpf). RSTS/E is on the host attached to the bridge's interface (vmbr0). The host runs linux.) -- Cory