[Simh] help about simh report error.

[Jerry Ethington]

>the vax.ini
>
>;
>; Attach Ethernet to a network interface
>set xq mac=08-00-2B-AA-BB-CC
>attach xq \Device\NPF_{608B11E9-A164-41F6-9649-3BD30434FC71}
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>i run it in my ibook G4.with SIMH 3.4 ,the error report is same.
>
>anyone can help me?thanks!
>
>by the way,i dont understand the follow words,who can explain to me? 
>thank you very much!!!
>
>attach xq \Device\NPF_{608B11E9-A164-41F6-9649-3BD30434FC71}

These two commands are a little bit suspect.

The set command: not sure why you have this in the file.  About the 
only use I've heard of for this command is to use a wireless card 
adapter as described in the SIMH FAQ file.  Very few people are doing 
this, and if you aren't you should probably remove this line from the 
command file.

The attach command is seriously broke - it not only is a syntax that 
only works on Windoze systems, but worse it is for only one specific 
Windoze machine's hardware.  I guarantee it will NEVER work on an 
iBook, and it will only work on one particular Windoze machine.

You should run the emulator and type "show xq eth" to get a list of 
known ethernet interfaces on your system.  Choose the interface you 
want to use, then select that interface in you vax.ini file with "set 
xq ethN" where N is the number of the interface to use.  In most 
cases, you'll end up using the first interface on your system, number 
0, with the "set xq eth0" command.

One last thing for the iBook - be sure not to forget to install the 
ChmodBPF startup item that came with the libpcap sources.  It changes 
the ownership on the /dev/bpf* interfaces so the simulator can use 
the libpcap library without being run as root.

Hope this helps,

Jerry
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