[Simh] what is the recommended way to config network for simh/VAX

[Gary Lee Phillips]

Phil's instructions are still good. I have SIMH VAX running on Ubuntu 10.04
and 10.10 just fine.

The problem, I suspect, is that you installed the SIMH package provided by
Ubuntu. That one does not include network capabilities. It was compiled
without them (and the description does warn of that.) You must compile your
own copy from source and specify that you want ethernet drivers included.
And you must have the libpcap package installed as well.

SIMH VAX with networking works fine then, either with taptap or without it.

--Gary

Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:26:29 -0700
> From: Ron Young <rly1 at embarqmail.com>
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] what is the recommended way to config network for
>        simh/VAX
> Message-ID: <20110908052629.82C53A031 at ron-amd64.localdomain>
>
>
> Hi All:
>
>   I recently upgraded my ubuntu box to version 10.10 and I'm trying to
>   get openvms/vax (hobbyist 7.2 CD) to use networking with simh
>   3.8.2-rc2. Since I haven't played with vms for many years, I'm using
>   Phillip Wherry's web page as an installation guide
>   (http://www.wherry.com/gadgets/retrocomputing/vax-simh.html)
>
>   I'm confused on what is the correct method to configure the
>   network. I've tried several different approaches with no success
>   (and some like bridging with taptap as described at
>   http://www.retrocomputinggeek.com/retrowiki/SIMHNetworking/ ended
>   up "hanging" the interface -- no fun when working remotely).
>
>   Does anyone have a straight-forward procedure (config files, specific
>   packages, etc) that is known to work?
>
>   my setup is:
>
>      ubuntu 10.10 (32bit) Linux 2.6.32-33-generic-pae
>      simh-3.8.2-rc2 (from the downloaded zip file simhv38-2-rc2.zip)
>      wired ethernet interface (eth1 ip: 192.168.2.xx/24).
>
>      Downloading the taptap.c version referenced on the
>      retrocomputinggeek.com webpage results in an empty file/blank page
>      in browser).
>
>      I tried two different versions of taptap: taptap-1.0.tar.bz2
>      (http://www.munted.org.uk/programming/taptap/) and taptap-modified.c
>      (http://www.itsecuritygeek.com/files/taptap-modified.c)
>
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
>   thanks
>
>   -ron
>
>
> ===============================================================================
> Ron Young                               rly1 at embarqmail.com
>
>
>
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