rebuild RSTS/E monitor, was Re: [HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 and OpenVMS via DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons <jg at jordi.guillaumes.name> wrote:

Al 29/10/12 13:08, En/na Cory Smelosky ha escrit:
It works mostly "out of the box" with the Panda distribution. You have to fiddle a little bit with the configuration file but IIRC it is pretty straightforward. I'll check it when I get access to my machine. Or you can check it yourself SET HOSTing to BITXT2 in HECnet.

Unknown node, what's its address? Could you explain what you did to configure it?
I am not at home now, so I will probably forgert something.

You must edit SYSTEM:7-1-CONFIG.CMD and add/modify the following lines:

NODE <your_node> <area.address>
DECNET ROUTER-ENDNODE
ETHERNET 0 DECNET

29-Oct-2012 09:33:11 ***BUGCHK COMBNN*** Bad local node number   Job: 0, User: OPERATOR
[KNILDR: Loading microcode version 1(172) into Ethernet channel 0]

TYPE SYSTEM:7-1-CONFIG.CMD shows:
NODE MINDY 33.303
DECNET ROUTER-ENDNODE

ETHERNET 0 DECNET

Trying to enter opr so I can enter NCP and see if I can get more information   but nothing happens when I type opr<ret> as operator.

The system is not reachable via decnet.

Did I forget a setting somewhere?




By the way, the address of BITXT2 is 7.78; you can login using GUEST / GUEST.

I have not tried to configure it as a router, so I can not tell if anything different of ROUTER-ENDNODE would work. By the way, there is no "permanent database" in TOPS-20 DECNET, so you have to define the nodes everytime. I made a command procedure to do that parsing the output of a LIST KNOWN NODES, but unfortunately I can't tell you how do I invoke that command procedure now (I just forgot that!).

The tricky part was the host configuration. I was unable to share the ethernet card of the host, so I resorted to the (somehow convoluted) solution of running a minimal linux system inside a virtualbox vm with several ethernet adapters and then run KLT10 inside the VM, using one of the virtual ethernet devices.

I have it attached to a bridge and it is reachable via TCP/IP, so networking works.