On 2018-07-20 16:20, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
On Friday, July 20, 2018 at 6:05 AM, Hunter Goatley wrote:
On 7/20/2018 7:58 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Is that the Ethernet interface down/up that happens when DECnet sets the
MAC address? I assume you don't have a card that supports multiple MAC
addresses.
It probably is. That makes total sense, and I should have realized that.
I'm quite sure that the MAC address change happens much earlier than
the DECnet startup when a VMS cluster is configured on the system. As
soon as the booting system gets its SYSGEN parameters and knows its
SCSSYSTEMID it 1) has enough info to set the DECnet MAC address and
2) is capable of engaging in cluster communications using this ID (and MAC).
Well, I can at least confirm on a real 8650, the network also briefly
goes down and up again when DECnet is started. If I remember it even
happens independent of if you have the machine in a cluster or not.
If someone is really interested I can boot the machine up to VMS and
capture the output. I can also do some other tests and checks if anyone
is interested.
Johnny
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