[HECnet] getting connected

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

El 25/05/2014, a les 1.30, Mark G Thomas <Mark at Misty.com> va escriure:

Hi,

So now I'm connected via GRE tunnels, and assigned a decnet cost
to the local ethernet interface on my router, but I'm not quite 
working yet.

1) I ran SYS$MANAGER:NET$CONFIGURE.COM, but something isn't quite right.

2) Once I get DECnet configured and working, what can I connect to?


Uh, it seems you are installing DECNET Phase V, also known as DECNet-OSI. Unless you are doing this for the sake of it, I'd suggest to uninstall DECNET-V and go back to DECNET Phase IV, which is far easier to set up. 

Having said that, that OPCOM message is telling you that you have not configured any DTSS (Dec Time Server) in your LAN. At least one of your nodes should be configured as DTSS server (you must install de DTSS software answering yes to one of the questions you get installing the kit, and after that, configure the server itself).

If you succeed you can test DECNET over IP transport doing a SET HOST to jguillaumes.dyndns.org; you should get into BITXOZ, which is my own DECNET-V node. BITXOZ is also a DDns server, providing name info for the HECNET: namespace. As far as I know, there is no HECNET-wide standard for implementing Phase V, so I rolled my own server :)


Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
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