There is such a thing as promiscuous mode for 802.11, though its usage is
generally considered to be for harmful purposes and I don't think a
discussion of it here is appropriate. If you want to do such a thing you
will need to be careful in your selection of a wireless interface, and
googling is your friend.
-Henry
On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 15:11, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
> Repeat after me: WiFi is not ethernet... :-)
>
> What you are trying to do essentially does not work. simh is essentially
> trying to set the interface in promiscuous mode, and fake a second mac
> address on the interface. This works just fine on ethernet, but it does
> not at all work on WiFi, where your AP knows what MAC address you have,
> and will not send packets for another MAC address to your WiFi controller.
>
> Johnny
>
> On 2019-05-09 16:00, Jonathan Welch wrote:
> > The vms systems on our campus are about to be shut down. My former
> > boss and I would like to still have access to our files, so I've moved
> > an image of a vax system disk into simh.
> >
> > He is a networking expert and I am no slouch, but neither of us can
> > figure out why we cannot establish any kind of network connection
> > outside of the simh.
> >
> > I've looked back in the archives for help but have only found people
> > with linux systems or messages of success with UCX.
> >
> > This morning I upgraded from Multinet 4.3 to 5.2 and tried to set up
> > DHCP but that did not work either.
> >
> > Npcap is installed.
> >
> > If I set my mac address to be the same as that of the host laptop I
> > can use wireshark to see pings coming out from the vax but there are
> > no responses.
> >
> > I've disabled decnet from starting up to avoid the mac address from
> > being changed.
> >
> > Some guidance in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > From my vax.ini file:
> > set xq mac=08-24-d7-ca-1f-40
> > att xq eth3
> >
> > From the simh prompt:
> > sim> sho eth
> > ETH devices:
> > eth0 \Device\NPF_{8E7FBCD3-67EB-4A59-8E35-6713CAB729FA} (Local Area
> > Connection 2)
> > eth1 \Device\NPF_{EE67D248-AACC-4A29-99EE-2B84EA08B5EF} (VMware
> > Network Adapter VMnet8)
> > eth2 \Device\NPF_{7287895B-5B94-43ED-8AA8-1FF910EA836B} (Wireless
> > Network Connection 2)
> > eth3 \Device\NPF_{DC3CD7F8-4BD9-4610-B8DF-20AC5FBD56FC} (Wireless
> > Network Connection)
> > eth4 \Device\NPF_NdisWanIp (NdisWan
> Adapter)
> > eth5 \Device\NPF_NdisWanBh (NdisWan
> Adapter)
> > eth6 \Device\NPF_{B1392056-6E69-421B-9814-6011441195C2} (Wireless
> > Network Connection 3)
> > eth7 \Device\NPF_NdisWanIpv6 (NdisWan
> Adapter)
> > eth8 \Device\NPF_{C7140267-68CB-485A-B343-5751B1865242} (VMware
> > Network Adapter VMnet1)
> > eth9 \Device\NPF_{795E27CA-60AA-4A1E-AAB0-99FB62537868} (Npcap
> > Loopback Adapter)
> > eth10 \Device\NPF_{62CD8A59-7E13-401A-90AB-3CFBC37554E8} (Local Area
> > Connection)
> > eth11 nat:{optional-nat-parameters} (Integrated
> > NAT (SLiRP) support)
> > eth12 udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated
> > UDP bridge support)
> > Npcap version 0.994, based on libpcap version 1.9.1-PRE-GIT
> > Open ETH Devices:
> > XQ eth3 (Wireless Network Connection)
> > Ethernet Device:
> > Name:
> \Device\NPF_{DC3CD7F8-4BD9-4610-B8DF-20AC5FBD56FC}
> > Reflections: 1
> > Self Loopbacks Sent: 2
> > Self Loopbacks Rcvd: 2
> > Host NIC Address: 00:24:D7:CA:1F:40
> > Packets Sent: 2
> > Packets Received: 26
> > Asynch Interrupts: Disabled
> > Read Queue: Count: 24
> > Read Queue: High: 24
> > Read Queue: Loss: 0
> > Peak Write Queue Size: 0
> > BPF Filter: (((ether dst 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40) or (ether multicast)) and
> not ((et
> > her src 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40))) or ((ether dst 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40) and
> (ether src 08
> > :24:D7:CA:1F:40)) or ((ether dst 00:24:D7:CA:1F:40) and (ether proto
> 0x9000))
> > sim>
> >
> > Multinet settings
> > MultiNet Network Configuration Utility V5.2(107)
> > [Reading in MAXIMUM configuration from MULTINET:MULTINET.EXE]
> > [Reading in configuration from MULTINET:NETWORK_DEVICES.CONFIGURATION]
> > NET-CONFIG>sho
> > Interface Adapter CSR Address
> Flags/Vector
> > --------- ------- -----------
> ------------
> > se0 (Shared VMS Ethernet/FDDI) -NONE- -NONE-
> -NONE-
> > [TCP/IP: 10.0.0.150, IP-SubNet: 255.255.255.0, IP-Broadcast:
> > 10.0.0.255]
> > [VMS Device: XQA0, Link Level: Ethernet ]
> > DHCP Client for the interface is enabled
> >
> >
> > Official Host Name: vax1
> > Default IP Route: 10.0.0.1
> > Domain Nameserver: 127.0.0.1
> > Timezone: EST
> > Timezone Rules: US/EASTERN
> > Load UCX $QIO driver: TRUE
> > Load PWIP (Pathworks) driver: TRUE
> > DHCP Client Flag: 1
> > NET-CONFIG>
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