[HECnet] SIMH + Multiple interfaces + DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On 28 Dec 2012, at 16:45, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

On 2012-12-28 22:42, Cory Smelosky wrote:

On 28 Dec 2012, at 16:35, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:


On 28 Dec 2012, at 16:33, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:

Johnny wrote:
VMS don't know about bridging, ...

Are we talking about DECnet here?   If so, then that's not true.   VMS is
perfectly happy with two NI interfaces.   Both have the same DECnet address
and therefore the same MAC and are presumably connected to different
physical networks.   It'd be a mess if you connected them both to the same
LAN segment, of course.   IF the VMS node is a router, it'll happily route
DECnet traffic between the two interfaces and their associated networks.

I'm doing it now - LEGATO is configured this way.

I'm starting to think the problem lies with simh interfacing with FreeBSD's netstack/some odd OpenVPN stuff.


I fixed it. Turns out the problem resulted from accidentally becoming the router for someone else's network.

(Feel free to ask how the hell I managed that)

Please tell. :-)

I was using OpenVPN's layer 2 bridging at my house.   I have my VPS and a friend's windows server connected to it.   I set up a bridge on his windows server and my DHCP server was advertising to clients on his network.   I had simh instances running on that server that may've been using the default simh MAC which would explain the conflicts.

When I break networks   I do so spectacularly.


	Johnny


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