[HECnet] DECnet/m+

[Paul Koning]

> On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2021-12-22 20:42, Paul Koning wrote:
>> More...
>> I unpacked that decnet46 tape image with BRU, and did netgen with that.  I get an endnode, I missed the fact it didn't ask me if I wanted something else.  So how would I get a router instead?
> 
> Sounds like you are faced with an endnode kit. Then you don't have a choice.
> Download the full DECnet kit from MIM, and make a new installation with that. Now that you've come this far, that is fairly easy to do, since the tape image exists at MIM::

Where is that kit?

>> I supplied the addresses and vectors to match what SIMH has, but at network startup I get a complaint about the DMC-0 vector:
>>> NCP SET SYS
>> NTL -- DMC Template -- Vector 320 Not Available
>> 	.INT1	$$DMC
>> NTL -- DMC Template -- Vector 324 Not Available
>> 	.INT2	$$DMC
>> NTINIT -- Failed To Load Line DMC-0
>>> ASN =XX:
>>> NCP SET EXE STA ON
>> As far as I can tell nothing else uses that vector.  It's happy with DMC-1 (vector 330).
> 
> Something must be using vector 320.
> 
> Try "CON DIS FULL ATT" and spot what might be using it.

The DHU, I got the vector wrong apparently.  How do I fix that?  Sysgen?

>> Also, I can't get CFE to set my nearby node names:
>> CFE>def nod 41.1 name python
>> CFE -- Name Node Server QIO failed, Function=IO.WND, I/O Status=205
>> Does it matter that I specified that name during netgen?  But I also gave it MIM and that's defined just fine.
> 
> I wonder if it might be that the node name server isn't running. But I don't understand why MIM would be possible to define in that case.
> Do you perhaps already have a PYTHON defined with some other number?

No, it's not currently defined at all.

> Also, if you have DECnet up and running, check for [5,54]NNCFSL.TSK, which is a task you can use to copy all the node names from another node (like MIM).

It's called NNCRES in my system, I guess that's a different library flavor.

	paul