[HECnet] Introduction

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

The scsnode and the scssystemid are tightly connected with decnet. The scsnode is the name of the system, 6 alphanum characters in size maximum end is the same as the DECnet nodename. The scssystemid is connected with the decnet address. A decnet address is of the form (area).(hostnr) where area is an integer of 1..63 and hostnr an integer of 1..1023. The syssystemid is computed as 1024*area + hostnr. 
Both values may be changed. Google for modparams.dat (the file where those values are stored), sysgen.exe (the utility that modifies the parameters) and autogen.com which is a utility that helps tuning your system. 
A lot is covered in a manual I wrote last year that describes the installation of the bridge program and the various system mqnagement tasks tjat are neede on VMS and Windows systems that run DECnet. Johnny Billquist runs DECnet and he has the latest copy of this manual. 
Welcome to Hecnet and good luck!
Hans Vlems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:40:05 
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Hi!

I'm new to the DEC/OpenVMS platform, but am hoping to join HECnet on recommendation from a friend who is (or at least was) more into this area of computing.

I am not seriously involved with DEC systems to any great extent, or a DEC-using professional, but I'm an avid enthusiast who thrives on investigating different platforms and OSs.

I am currently going through my first install of OpenVMS 8.3 and have hit the part where I need the SCSNODE and SCSSYSTEMID - I guess that's where I need details from HECnet. If I put something random in at the install can I change those post-install?

Also I would like to know details of how to build and run the DECnet bridge on Linux (if that's possible) and if, when using a DECnet, I can still use conventional TCP/IP on the OpenVMS machine.

As I said, I'm very new to this whole thing, so go easy on me :D!


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