[HECnet] SIMH VAX Project

[hvlems at zonnet.nl]

Hi Mark, you do know that one of the symptoms of being a VMS bigot is that unixes look alike :-) 
Actually, when I typed the reply I had forgotten which host os it was. NetBSD is pretty easy to install IIRC, had it installed on a VAX and an Alpha. Never did anything with it. These days all vaxes run VMS as do most alphas. Three alphas run Tru64 though. 

File not found is a curious error message. It's as if there is a typo in a .conf file in /etc?

/dev/ra0 is a strange name (for me and I know I lead a sheltered life ;-), what kind of hardware is it (1000 Mb/s ethernet perhaps). 

Or possibly because /dev/ra0 doesn't exist or cannot be accessed by libpcap (does it need root privs to run)?
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. 
Hans
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From: Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:26:19 
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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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On 30 Jun 2011, at 09:53, hvlems at zonnet.nl wrote:

What error message did you get?