Mark, See responses inline.
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > > > I’m still looking for details on your network vision/requirements: > > > > Do you expect communicate between the host system and the simulated VMS > environment? If so, how were you thinking you’d achieve this? > No need. > > > Historical questions relating to some possible solutions to achieve the, > as yet not completely specified, network goals: > > > > Have you previously had LAT enabled on the original VMS system? > Yes. But no longer needed. LAT startup has been commented out. > > > Was this VMS system ever part of a VMS Cluster environment? > Yes. But no longer needed. -Bill > > > - Mark > > > > *From:* Bill Deegan [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 20, 2015 2:21 PM > *To:* Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Simh] VAX/VMS 6.2 DECnet turned off, still resetting MAC > address > > > > 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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