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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.
