To everyone who supplied helpful comments on my problem, and also to those who were having interesting side conversations -- a big thank you. It was so exciting to get networking up and running. My last step was a set console telnet command and thus able to use a real terminal window. Editing in EDT line mode can be a bit tedious.
On 5/9/19, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote: > On 2019-05-09 21:15, Henry Bent wrote: >> 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. > > I've seen some mention of some interfaces being able to do it, yes, but > I have yet to see any in real life. Not entirely sure WiFi in general > even can do it properly. > > Johnny > >> >> -Henry >> >> On Thu, 9 May 2019 at 15:11, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se >> <mailto: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> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Simh mailing list >> > Simh@trailing-edge.com <mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com> >> > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> > >> >> -- >> Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus >> || on a psychedelic trip >> email: b...@softjar.se <mailto:b...@softjar.se> || >> Reading murder books >> pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. 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