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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I would be interested in seeing your simh configuration files for the two nodes in the cluster. That along with which simulator is running with those configurations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet@Update.UU.SE] <b>On Behalf Of </b>dwe-6006@philtest.org<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 22, 2018 4:01 PM<br><b>To:</b> hecnet@update.uu.se<br><b>Subject:</b> [HECnet] Asymmetric connectivity in a cluster<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I’m not sure that asymmetric is the correct description but I can’t think of a better term. I am using SIMH and I have a two node cluster (with a quorum disk)</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>the two nodes have a common system disk. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The two nodes are RODNEL</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>(1.1) booting from SYS0 and ADV2 (1.3) booting from SYS2. Both are running DECnet Plus both are running Multinet for the IP stack. At one time there was also a node (never</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>actually a member of the cluster called HCBVAX (1.2) it booted from SYS1 but it no longer exists.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The nodes are connected over an Ethernet and the MAC addresses are the ones that I would expect AA-00-04-00-01-04 (1.1) and AA-00-04-00-03-04 (1.3) HCBVAX was</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>AA-00-04-00-02-04 (1.2)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I can login to RODNEL and</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>“set host adv2” with no problem, I can login to ADV2 and “set host rondel” with no problem.</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>On each of the nodes I can “show cluster” and I see what I expect to see with no errors. While logged in to RODNEL the command</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>“moni cluster” works fine. While logged in to ADV2 the wheels seem to fall off the bus – “show cluster” is fine but “moni cluster” isn’t Any help would be appreciated. This is the information that I have gathered so far (I am not happy with the forwarding address in the error message from “moni proc” on ADV2 which seems to arise from RODNEL </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>--Dave</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>View of Cluster from system ID 1027 node: ADV2 22-APR-2018 22:24:50</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+-----------------------------+</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>¦ SYSTEMS ¦ MEMBERS ¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+-------------------+---------¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>¦ NODE ¦ SOFTWARE ¦ STATUS ¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+--------+----------+---------¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>¦ ADV2 ¦ VMS V7.3 ¦ MEMBER ¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>¦ RODNEL ¦ VMS V7.3 ¦ MEMBER ¦</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>+-----------------------------+</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>^Z</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>$</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>$ moni cluster</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>%MONITOR-I-ESTABCON, establishing connection to remote node(s)...</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 22-APR-2018 22:24:56.75 %%%%%%%%%%%</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Message from user SYSTEM on RODNEL</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Event: Address Unreachable PDU Discard from: Node LOCAL:.RODNEL Routing,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> at: 2018-04-22-23:24:56.740-04:00Iinf</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Discard Reason=Destination Addrs Unknown,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Source Address=49::00-01:AA-00-04-00-03-04:21,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> Forwarding Address=49::00-01:AA-00-04-00-02-04:21</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> eventUid FC95D640-467B-11E8-99E1-AA0004000104</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> entityUid 5683CC80-467B-11E8-8004-AA0004000104</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'> streamUid 5A113900-467B-11E8-8004-AA0004000104</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Still on ADV2 -</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>NCP is odd as well:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>$ mcr ncp</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>sho exec char</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node Volatile Characteristics as of 22-APR-2018 22:31:17</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Executor node = 1.3 (ADV2)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Identification = DECnet-OSI for OpenVMS</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Management version = V4.0.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Incoming timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Outgoing timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NSP version = V4.1.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum links = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Delay factor = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Delay weight = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Inactivity timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Retransmit factor = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Routing version = V2.0.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Type = nonrouting IV</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Routing timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Subaddresses = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Broadcast routing timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum address = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum circuits = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum cost = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum hops = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum visits = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum area = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Max broadcast nonrouters = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Max broadcast routers = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum path splits = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Area maximum cost = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Area maximum hops = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum buffers = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Segment buffer size = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Buffer size = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Pipeline quota = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Alias maximum links = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Path split policy = Normal</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum Declared Objects = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>show know nodes</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Known Node Volatile Summary as of 22-APR-2018 22:31:29</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Executor node = 1.3 (ADV2)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>State = on</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Identification = DECnet-OSI for OpenVMS</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>def node rodnel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node address (1.1-63.1023): 1.1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node name (1-6 characters): rodnel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>set node rodnel all</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>%NCP-W-UNRCMP, Unrecognized component</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>set node rodnel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node address (1.1-63.1023): 1.1</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node name (1-6 characters): rodnel</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>%NCP-W-UNRCMP, Unrecognized component , Node</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>exit</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Whereas RODNEL seems happier:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NCP>sho exec char</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Node Volatile Characteristics as of 22-APR-2018 20:15:29</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Executor node = 1.1 (RODNEL)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Identification = DECnet-OSI for OpenVMS</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Management version = V4.0.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Incoming timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Outgoing timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>NSP version = V4.1.0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Maximum links = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Delay factor = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Delay weight = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>Inactivity timer = 0</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span 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