[HECnet] DECnet-VAX V3.0, VMS V3.5 (Was Re: Oldest VAX/VMS for VAX-11/730 on HECNET) --> retract

[Supratim Sanyal]

On 12/16/2021 05:41, R. Voorhorst wrote:
 > Question  remains, how did you get Decnet 3.0 running and did you 
obtain the necessary patch.
Yes, applied the license. I  chose VAX/VMS 3.5 because in  March of 2020 
you had gone as far as getting a license error on VMS3.0 that said it 
needed VMS3.4+. I also tried to use the licensed NETACP.EXE on vms3.0, 
does not look promising, says it has problems loading. At this point, 
Cisco may be  the answer with the nifty feature for DECnet NAT, I will 
explore it sometime. Anyway, my experiments are here if you or anyone is 
interested: 
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x4e6ie4lrwi9wns/AABMogcguAcL8xPwMIDxOtNva?dl=0

On 12/16/2021 04:55, Johnny Billquist wrote:
 > Uh? The mac address AA-00-04-00-2A-7C means it has address 31.42. 
Just sayin...
It's forced at the Linux/SimH level.

On 12/15/2021 20:05, Paul Koning wrote:
 > You've got to set MAX AREA large enough; 63 is the obvious value.  
With it not set, the system apparently is defaulting it to 1, so when 
you gave it a node address without area number it defaulted the area 
number to 1, which of course can't work.

There is no option, at least in NCP, for any Area parameters.

NCP>help set exec

SET

   EXECUTOR


     Use the SET EXECUTOR command to create or modify parameters in the
     volatile database which controls the network on the executor node. Use
     the DEFINE EXECUTOR command to create or modify parameters in the
     volatile database which controls the network on the executor node.


     SET     EXECUTOR        (parameters ...)


     Additional information available:

     ALL        ADDRESS node-address  BROADCAST ROUTING TIMER
     BUFFER SIZE number    COUNTER TIMER seconds DEFAULT ACCESS
     DELAY FACTOR          DELAY WEIGHT          IDENTIFICATION
     INACTIVITY TIMER      INCOMING TIMER        MAXIMUM ADDRESS
     MAXIMUM BROADCAST NONROUTERS     MAXIMUM BROADCAST ROUTERS
     MAXIMUM BUFFERS       MAXIMUM CIRCUITS      MAXIMUM COST
     MAXIMUM HOPS          MAXIMUM LINKS         MAXIMUM VISITS
     NONPRIVILEGED         OUTGOING TIMER        PIPELINE QUOTA
     PRIVILEGED RETRANSMIT FACTOR     ROUTING TIMER
     SEGMENT BUFFER SIZE   STATE      SUBADDRESS range      TYPE
     Examples   NODE

SET EXECUTOR Subtopic?

SET EXECUTOR Subtopic? ex

SET

   EXECUTOR

     Examples



            NCP>SET EXECUTOR ADDRESS 11 BUFFER SIZE 576

                This command sets the executor node's address to 11 and 
buffer
                size to 576 bytes.

            NCP>SET EXECUTOR STATE ON

                This command sets the executor node's operational state 
to ON.


SET EXECUTOR Subtopic? ^Z
NCP>exit
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