[Simh] The Ultimate SIMH VAX Networking Challenge!

[Robert Jarratt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-
> edge.com] On Behalf Of Marc Chametzky
> Sent: 12 July 2009 19:47
> To: Seth Morabito
> Cc: simh
> Subject: Re: [Simh] The Ultimate SIMH VAX Networking Challenge!
> 
> > My end goal is to have a single host system, with a single physical
> > Ethernet, hosting two (or more!) SIMH VAX instances. Each SIMH VAX
> > should be able to communicate with all the others, and with the host,
> > and all of them should be reachable from the public Internet.
> 
> I don't know whether this would be cheating in your "challenge", but
> one
> way to do this would be to run all this under a hypervisor like VMware
> ESXi.
> 
> With that, you could set up multiple virtualized hosts if you want,
> each
> of which could have multiple virtual network adapters. This gets around
> the traditional problem of the host not being able to talk to the guest
> over the same network adapter. With ESXi you can control just how these
> virtual network adapters are bridged together.
> 
> I have something like this set up myself, although I have it such that
> the two virtual network adapters are on different VLANs so that the
> hosts are on my private LAN, while the VMS or TOPS-20 guest is running
> on a semi-DMZ LAN.
> 
> --Marc
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Are you networking TOPS-20 on SIMH? Or are you just using Telnet into the
console?

Regards

Rob