[HECnet] TOPS-20 DECnet

[Johnny Billquist]

Joe. I believe DECnet V4 might be the latest.
However, you must be missing something, since the dialog you pasted in here only asks about creating DECnet links over DTE, which is not ethernet.

Afraid I don't know the magic incantations though. Checked the manuals?

	Johnny

On 2012-01-11 22:32, Joe Ferraro wrote:
Thanks for the responses...

There is no decnet connectivity to the TOPS 20 host...

The TOPS-20 host is presently available via IP - 74.143.35.91:1023
<http://74.143.35.91:1023>. In any case, my knowledge of TOPS-20 is
slowly growing /ex nihilo/ ... I loaded the tapes from bitsaver.org
<http://bitsaver.org> and believe that I am running the correct
monitor... (unfortunately, the docs that I've found don't always
correspond to the version of software I've chosen to run).

I'm sure there may be a newer DECnet tape out there; however, the latest
I could find (at the time) was v4, I believe... in any case, one of my
biggest issues is hardware knowledge -- running `netgen` does not
seemingly inquire about the [equivalent] NIC...

$netgen
TOPS-20 Network Configurator for DN20, Version 4A(11)

[Type START to begin configuration dialog]

NETGEN>start
Node name:   tx0
Node address:   20.3
?Not confirmed: ""
Node address:   2

Transmit password: <blah>
What DTE port number is used for this DN20:   0
?Value is out of range: "0"
What DTE port number is used for this DN20:   1

The total number of DMC11s and DMR11s must not exceed 6
How many DMC11 lines are on this DN20:   1
DMC-0 Cost: 1

How many DMR11 lines are on this DN20:

How many KDPs are on this DN20:

[Configuration Saved On:   PS:<DECNET>TX0.CNF.1]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>NMLACC.MAC.1]   [OK]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>CETAB.MAC.1]   [OK]
[Generating PS:<DECNET>NETPAR.MAC.1]   [OK]

[Configuration complete]
  Type SAVE and FINISH after any additional changes
  Type EXIT to terminate NETGEN


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl
<mailto:hvlems at zonnet.nl>> wrote:

      Joe,
      Could you explain how the TOPS-20 system is connected to your network?
      Your mail indicates the ability to do a SET HOST from WOPR to
      TOPS20, is that right?
      If so then there is DECnet connectivity between WOPR and TOPS20.
      or am I missing something?
      Hans
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      I'll echo the sentiment of not wanting to sound like an AOL user....
      With all of the recent, invigorating HECnet discussion, I am curious
      if anyone has a decent [approachable] resource for getting a TOPS-20
      instance on the [HEC] net. I have a non-panda instance up (ARPAnet),
      and have a version of DECnet [apparently] installed, but no dice
      with HECnet connectivity. Worse case I guess I may use a captive
      account of sorts to gateway from WOPR:: to the 20x node via
      telnet.... but that just seems wrong in principle... Joe




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