[Simh] OpenVMS and networking on Windows

[Vorländer, Martin]

Bucher Andreas wrote:
> Zachary Kline wrote:
> > 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,

> are you sure the eth1 really is the ethernet adapter ?
> 
> Best is to fire up simh, stop booting by ctrl-E (or avoid having a
> simh.ini file), and type
> 
> sim> sho xq eth

Goooood advice!

> This will produce a list of windows devices acting as network adapters
> (physical or logical). If the PC has more than one network device
> (usually it will), you can determine the device numbers via the
> descriptions. The device number listed in the ETH column is 
> equvalent to the ethX code used to attach the xq device to.
> 
> Like on my PC (I have VMWare installed), I have 4 network adapters in
> total (if you have a WiFi, you might have 2 or 3). The main 
> problem is:
> The order of the adapter may vary, so eth1 is not allways the physical
> ethernet of the PC (look for "local area connection"). 
> 
> Therefore, best would be to do the sho xq eth and determine 
> the correct device each time SIMH starts ...

Or, a lot easier:

Windows SIMH allows you to enter the device names in the attach xq statement
instead of the ethX names.

I have in my INI file:

ATTACH XQ0  \Device\NPF_{5B1F9EE4-9DB6-4DF8-8215-282D9F72F7BC} 
ATTACH XQB0 \Device\NPF_{5AABD590-FA23-403A-A236-75F3624AFC88}

(the second one being an OpenVPN connection for talking to SIMH's host)

cu,
  Martin
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