[Simh] OpenVMS and networking on Windows

[Jason Stevens]

Are you using a physical ethernet on the laptop?  Not wifi?

I cooked up a megapatch to integrate slirp on simh allowing "user mode
networking" so that it'll work for wifi..  Im sure I have the information
around here somewhere, or I could email you the microvax binary if you are
interested...

On Feb 4, 2008 9:39 PM, Zachary Kline <z_kline at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get back into OpenVMS, using my old system disk image and my
> copy of SIMH.  I have it set up to boot on my laptop, and just installed the
> Multinet TCP stack from Process Software.
> The problem now seems to be that I can't Windows networking to work.  I'm
> unfortunately at a university with an Internet policy which is a little
> restrictive.
> I've tried using:
> attach xq eth1
> at the SIMH prompt, and it seems to have worked.  I'm using WinPCAP 4.0,
> the latest version.
> My TCP stack in VMS can't find the DHCP server, nor does setting the MAC
> of the network card to be the same as that of the physical card help.
> I always get a message about there being no route to host.  I'm wondering
> if the WinPCAP version is to blame?
> Thanks for any help,
> Zack.
>
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