[HECnet] DECnet/m+

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2021-12-22 22:06, Paul Koning wrote:
> 
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>> On Dec 22, 2021, at 2:48 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
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>> 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?

MIM::KITS:

>>> 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?

CON SET DHA VECTOR=xxx

(see CON HELP)

if you want it permanent, you do it in VMR on the system image.

>>> 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.

Weird. I would have to be on the machine to tell what that might be.
You could check that the nodename server is running at least:

TAL NT.NNS

(should look something like this:
.tal nt.nns
NT.NNS 032460  GEN    032144 02627700-02762500  Pri - 200.  Dpri - 200.
    Status:  WFR PRV ROV DFB XHR
    TI - CO0:  IOC - 0.  BIO - 0.  Eflg - 000003 040000  PS - 170000
    PC - 013122  Regs 0-6  002054 004346 005340 000000 005340 000074 001214
)

If status contains -EXE then it's not running.

>> 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.

Yes. The FSL version uses supervisor mode libraries. Either should work 
just fine.

   Johnny

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