All Following Mark P's feedback and comments, this is in many respects a re-submission of a previous poorly put together post.
My goal in all this is to make an Ethernet adapter on PDP11 under SimH available to RSX11M+ V4.6 so that I can enable networking within that environment. I have not been able to do this so far despite following what I believed to be correct approaches. The following setup comes from running SIMH on a Win10 box directly using a pre-built binary. SIMH> sim> show version PDP-11 simulator V4.0-0 Current Simulator Framework Capabilities: 32b data 32b addresses Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:NAT:UDP Idle/Throttling support is available Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue) Asynchronous Clock support FrontPanel API Version 12 Host Platform: Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ 15.00.30729.01 Simulator Compiled as C arch: x86 (Release Build) on Mar 10 2020 at 00:42:02 Build Tool: simh-Visual-Studio-Project Memory Access: Little Endian Memory Pointer Size: 32 bits Large File (>2GB) support SDL Video support: SDL Version 2.0.10, PNG Version 1.6.37, zlib: 1.2.11 PCRE RegEx (Version 8.43 2019-02-23) support for EXPECT commands OS clock resolution: 1ms PDTime taken by msleep(1): 1ms Ethernet packet info: Unsupported - Npcap version 0.9991, based on libpcap version 1.9.1 Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms OS: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.836] Architecture: x86 on AMD64, Processors: 4 Processor Id: Intel64 Family 6 Model 142 Stepping 9, GenuineIntel, Level: 6, Revision: 8e09 git commit id: c30c88c2 git commit time: 2020-03-10T00:18:19-07:00 CONFIG> PDP-11 simulator configuration CPU 11/70, FPP, RH70, autoconfiguration disabled, idle enabled SYSTEM RHA address=17776700-17776753, vector=254, BR5 RHB disabled RHC disabled CLK 60Hz, address=17777546-17777547, vector=100, BR6 PCLK disabled PTR address=17777550-17777553, vector=70, BR4 PTP address=17777554-17777557, vector=74, BR4 TTI address=17777560-17777563, vector=60, BR4 TTO address=17777564-17777567, vector=64, BR4 TDC disabled CR disabled LPT address=17777514-17777517, vector=200, BR4 DLI disabled DLO disabled DCI disabled DCO disabled DZ address=17760100-17760107*, vector=300-304*, BR5, lines=8 VH disabled RC disabled RF disabled RK address=17777400-17777417, vector=220, BR5, 8 units RL RL11, address=17774400-17774411, vector=160, BR5, 4 units HK disabled RX disabled RY disabled RP Massbus adapter 0 (RHA), 8 units RS disabled RQ disabled RQB disabled RQC disabled RQD disabled TC disabled TM disabled TS disabled TQ TU81 (180MB), address=17774500-17774503, no vector, BR5, 4 units TU disabled TA disabled VT disabled XQ disabled XQB disabled XU disabled XUB disabled KG disabled DMC disabled DUP disabled DPV disabled KDP disabled KE disabled ROM 4 units CH disabled NG disabled DAZ disabled NETWORK> sim> sh eth ETH devices: eth0 \Device\NPF_{0CAAD8E0-0523-432A-89C3-29377479808C} (VirtualBox Host-Only Network) eth1 \Device\NPF_{A2D25F8C-319D-4D10-A2D1-F612E89065DC} (Local Area Connection* 10) eth2 \Device\NPF_{EAE8073C-4368-41F5-9B70-77671D8038DE} (WiFi) eth3 \Device\NPF_{2CEDB723-3207-46CB-A136-081880A0C53A} (VMware Network Adapter VMnet1) eth4 \Device\NPF_{87E9C4CC-4570-4792-840C-D13C7E5806B0} (Local Area Connection* 2) eth5 \Device\NPF_{3290B149-A507-49C1-86EE-EB9D894D48A1} (Local Area Connection* 8) eth6 \Device\NPF_{A5A812CA-928E-4EA9-8738-2E125D177FF3} (Local Area Connection* 3) eth7 \Device\NPF_{E4948FE0-C106-4D09-9310-EB0B72477D28} (VMware Network Adapter VMnet8) eth8 \Device\NPF_{21E275FA-748D-414E-942D-E86C23FF7260} (Local Area Connection* 9) eth9 \Device\NPF_{438585F9-46EB-4060-8674-0029AE4FAEE1} (Ethernet) eth10 nat:{optional-nat-parameters} (Integrated NAT (SLiRP) support) eth11 udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support) MANUAL CONFIG DELUA> sim> set XU enable sim> set XU autoconfigure sim> set XU type=DELUA sim> sh xu XU no vector, BR5, MAC=08:00:2B:03:FE:68, type=DELUA throttle=disabled not attached sim> Now I have deliberately not attached the XU device; I just want to make sure it is picked up by RSX11M+. I believe it should do so even if it then fails to do anything sensible. I get identical results when attached to a network (for details of attach, see later). When booted (via RL0), RSX11M+ fires up as expected. When I try to enable the network via NETINS.CMD, I see that it is not able to "install" the UNA-0 network device. NTL -- Config File -- Device UNA-0 Offline CNT$DF 0,120,174510,5,,NX NTINIT -- Failed To Load Line UNA-0 Inspecting the RSX11M+ config shows: RSX> >con dis attr SYS PDP-11/70, EIS,UNIBUS_Map,D-Space,SWR,Cache,FPP, Clock=KW11-L, $TKPS=60., $TTPRM=000002, Cache_control=000001 LAA Csr=170460, Vector=000340, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 YLA Csr=177560, Vector=000060, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 DLA Csr=174400, Vector=000160, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 DUA Csr=172150, Vector=000154, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 LPA Csr=177514, Vector=000200, Pri=000004, Urm=000001 MUA Csr=174500, Vector=000260, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 YZA Csr=160100, Vector=000300, Pri=000005, Urm=000001 VF0: ,Type= VF1: ,Type= LA0: LAA0: CO0: TT0: YLA0: TT1: YZA0: TT2: YZA1: TT3: YZA2: TT4: YZA3: TT5: YZA4: TT6: YZA5: TT7: YZA6: TT10: YZA7: VT0: DL0: DLA0:,Type=RL02 DL1: DLA1:,Type=RL02 DL2: DLA2:,Type=RL02 DL3: DLA3:,Type=RL02 NL0: DU0: DUA0: DU1: DUA1: DU2: DUA2: DU3: DUA3: LP0: LPA0: MU0: MUA0:,Type=TU81 NN0: NM0: HT0: HT1: HT2: HT3: RT0: RT1: RT2: RT3: This seems to show that the device is not being seen by RSX11M+ at all since there is no device information. I also retried this having attached a network to the device XU0: ETH-ATTACHED> sim> attach xu0 eth2 Eth: opened OS device \Device\NPF_{EAE8073C-4368-41F5-9B70-77671D8038DE} - WiFi sim> sho xu0 XU0 attached to eth2 This gave exactly as far as I can tell the same results on booting RSX11M+ and running the NETINS command script. If I am given guidance I can provide more information from SimH or from RSX11M+. I hope on this occasion I have provided the correct type of submission. -- Phil J Fisher phil.fis...@peejayeff.co.uk Mobile: +44 7984 781 929 (please leave message if busy or N/A) Director, PeeJayEff Services Ltd IT Consultancy and Technical Training in UNIXes/Linux http://www.peejayeff.co.uk/ Email and any attachments sent are scanned by McAfee Anti-Virus but integrity cannot be guaranteed. _____________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh