One of my nodes fell off Hecnet (actually a while ago). I finally got around to reboot it in order to get it back. The problem? Too much uptime. Monitor Atle - DEC-10 at work System uptime 10483:52:41 Current date/time Thursday 8-Feb-2018 8:00:14 Thats what you get for running stable hardware. On the other hand, this is/was a known problem: MCO: 12935 Name: WXD Date: 22-May-86:14:12:35 [Symptom] DECnet stops working correctly. The -10 sees all the nodes on the ethernet, but isn't seen by any of the nodes. [Diagnosis] The -10 has stopped sending ethernet hello messages. This is caused by the -10 getting an overflow when calculating the DECnet time (milliseconds of uptime), which is then used to determine when to send the next message. The algorithm is: MOVE T1,SYSUPT IMULI T1,1000. IDIVI T1,JIFSEC This overflows at 159 hours, 4 minutes, 22 seconds, and 19. ticks (60hz). [Cure] Change IMULI -> MULI, and IDIVI -> DIVI This algorithm won't overflow until 9544 hours of uptime (395+ days). --Johnny (the other one) /\_/\ ( *.* )