[HECnet] RSTS/E 10.1 and OpenVMS via DECnet

[Cory Smelosky]

On Oct 26, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

So, are both of your simulated machines on the same physical machine? And how are you connected to the rest of HECnet?

Yes, and I can communicate with other VMs on the same physical machine without issue. I brought up a simulated alpha on the host and it can contact the simulated VAX fine, along with the rest of HECnet.

i'm connected to the rest of HECnet through multinet's decnet-over-IP tunnel to Fred's systems.


	Johnny

On 2012-10-27 02:33, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Okay, I have OpenVMS and RSTS/E both installed with DECnet configured,
and the simulated VAX is acting as a level 1 router (as far as I know,
anyway   I set it to act as a router in netconfig). However, neither the
emulated VAX nor the emulated PDP-11 can SET HOST to each other, and the
simulated PDP-11 cannot reach the rest of HECnet.

They both show adjacency status changes for each other.

DIR GEWT:: on the RSTS/E system (I'll call it GEWT1 for simplicity sake)
prompts me for a password, and an invalid password results in OPCOM
messages about invalid logins from its address (33.301). DIR GEWT1::
just results in -SYSTEM-F-UNREACHABLE, remote node is not currently
reachable.

I ran tcpdump to see if packets were going anywhere, and they were.

https://www.refheap.com/paste/27fd44fa3ea5af2935eef8915

Is there something really obvious i'm missing? Please let me know, still
learning my way around here. ;)


(the networking setup: OpenVMS in SIMH in a FreeBSD VM that is bridged
with the host (using bpf). RSTS/E is on the host attached to the
bridge's interface (vmbr0). The host runs linux.)

-- Cory