This may be an obvious question, but is your Mac connected via Wi-Fi? If so, you’re going to have problems using the default networking. I tried to do this several years ago, and never found a totally satisfactory solution. I figured it was worth checking, because if this doesn’t work nothing more advanced is going to. Best, Zack.
Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2017, at 1:44 PM, Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > > All, > > I'm a Vax newbie and 4.3 BSD newbie. I'm usually tooling around in V6/V7 and > modern linux, mac, bsd environments. I'm used to SIMH, but from a pdp11 > perspective. I've never tried to get networking working in a SIMH vm... > > I'm having some difficulty configuring my newly installed 4.3BSD Quasijarus > for networking on my Mac Host and I'm hoping somebody here might help me > figure out what's up. The system boots up and displays: > > checking quotas: done. > > But then it hangs for a while trying to set up the logger. It hangs up on > services, sendmail, etc. I gather at this point that something's amiss with > my network on the instance or in my simh setup. After the system comes up > completely, I log in as root and ping yahoo.com - no result. I ping > 192.168.0.1 (my gateway), and then 127.0.0.1 and get a result, but it's not > what I'm hoping for - > > PING 192.168.0.1: 56 data bytes > ^C > ----192.168.0.1 PING Statistics---- > 6 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > and > > PING 127.0.0.1: 56 data bytes > ^C > ----127.0.0.1 PING Statistics---- > 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > Hmm. I'm stumped. All of my settings on the host and in the vax seem ok, but > I may be missing something obvious. Either way, it's not working. The SIMH > messages related to the nic are: > > ... > libpcap version 1.8.1 -- Apple version 67.60.2 > Eth: opened OS device en1 > ... > > then in the vax: > > ... > > qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764, ipl 14 > qe0: deqna, hardware address 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc > ... > > I'm running on Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.6, 16GB RAM, etc. My SimH Vax is > MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta git commit id: 1d2742ed > > I followed the really excellent notes at: > http://www.tavi.co.uk/unixhistory/quasijarus.html > > and hit no significant snags at any point. I innocently changed some > parameters to suit my host environment: > > ifconfig > en1: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 4c:8d:79:ef:2d:26 > inet6 fe80::18dc:318c:1da7:5048%en1 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x5 > inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD> > media: autoselect > status: active > > vax.ini > set xq enable > set xq type=deqna > attach xq0 en1 > > then in the stage 4 part of the install, I used 192.168.0.132 as my ip (a > free ip on my local net): > > ========== netstart source > cat /etc/netstart > #!/bin/sh - > # > # @(#)netstart 1.1 (Berkeley) 1/10/99 > > routedflags=-q > rwhod=NO > > # myname is my symbolic name > # my-netmask is specified in /etc/networks > # > hostname=quasijarus > hostname $hostname > > #ifconfig imp0 inet $hostname > #ifconfig de0 inet $hostname netmask my-netmask > #ifconfig qe0 inet $hostname netmask my-netmask > ifconfig qe0 192.168.0.132 netmask 255.255.255.0 > route add default 192.168.0.1 1 > > ifconfig lo0 inet localhost > route add $hostname localhost 0 > hostid $hostname > > ========== disable named in rc > cat /etc/rc |grep named > #named; echo -n ' named' >/dev/console > > ========== use my local network dns > cat /etc/resolv.conf > nameserver 192.168.0.1 > > ========== set up name of instance > cat /etc/hosts > 0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > # Imaginary network. > 0.2 myname.my.domain myname > 0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend > 192.168.0.132 quasijarus > ========== > > On rebooting, I hit the nic issues. Any ideas what's going on or further > diagnostic steps I can take? Advice much appreciated. > > Will > > -- > GPG Fingerprint: 68F4 B3BD 1730 555A 4462 7D45 3EAA 5B6D A982 BAAF > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
