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

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

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.
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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

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.