[HECnet] SIMH VAX Project

[Steve Davidson]

Mark,

This is a VERY easy setup.   Start your SimH process from rc.local.   Be sure to put the "&" at the end of the line.   I can send you what I have if need be.

Regards,

-Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE on behalf of Mark Benson
Sent: Thu 6/30/2011 08:57
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Subject: Re: [HECnet] SIMH VAX Project

Security on BSD distributions is tight, you might need to reduce the security policies on the system. Libpcap turns the ethernet device in promiscuous mode and that may be considered harmful. 

Figures. You can only run SIMH with networking as root. Might explain it.

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Mark Benson

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On 30 Jun 2011, at 10:56, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:



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-----Original Message-----
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"File not found" I think. Like it couldn't pick up the device.

Re: Sharing a port, I don't need to talk to the host OS from the VAX emulation, I just need to access both from a third host.

I will have to compile libpcap from pkgsrc but that shouldn't be an issue unless pcap needs to be present at compile time. If that is the case I just need to recompile SIMH so again no big deal.

FWIW, NetBSD is not a flavour of Linux either ;) ;)
<this is intended as a lighthearted statement>

It's all good fun!

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Mark Benson

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On 30 Jun 2011, at 09:53, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:

What error message did you get?