Mark, The system is running multinet, so accessing the system vi TCP/IP and telnet will be sufficient for this application. Not cluster not decnet needed.
-Bill On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > You want VMS to not try and change the MAC address. > > On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Bill Deegan wrote: > > I'm migrating a VMS 6.2 system from real hardware to simh VAX. > > We're running on EC2 so DECnet's a no go. > > So, exactly how do you plan/want to access the simulated VAX? > > What do you envision the network to look like? > > > We've disabled the DECnet startup on the system, but when I turn on > tracing I see: > > DBG(42740138541)+> XQ ETH: writing dst: 02:41:0C:98:92:09 src: > AA:00:04:00:20:10 proto: 0x0800 len: 98 crc: B5981F43 > > > > Is there a way to enable the debugging before booting up the VAX? > > The same debugging commands that enabled the above XQ debug output can > certainly be put in the vax configuration file. > > I'm not sure how that will help anything. > > > Barring that is there a way to prevent simh catching the "setup packet" > and changing the SRC MAC address? > > Something in VMS is changing the MAC address on the simulated interface by > issuing the appropriate I/O operations to do this. It may be DECnet or it > may also be other networking things on the system. > > Before we dig into the details of that, answering the above questions > about how you envision the network to look will be more helpful. > > - Mark > > >
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