[Simh] Netcon

[Timothe Litt]

Oh, the loopback - CHKLBP.MAC isn't compiling.  I can't tell if the log 
is jumbled, or if the code is really missing CRLFs.

This communication may not represent my employer's views,
if any, on the matters discussed.

On 27-May-13 11:36, Robert Jarratt wrote:
> The disks are cloned but I modified 4-1-config.cmd to change the node name
> and number. That is all I did. So in one I have the line
>      NODE TOPS20 25
> And in the other I have
>      NODE TOPS21 26
>
> I don't know much about how NETCON would get its permissions, it is being
> started from SYSJOB.RUN, this is what I have in that file after following
> the instructions in the manual I was following:
>
> RUN SYS:ORION
> RUN SYS:QUASAR
> RUN SYS:MOUNTR
> RUN SYS:INFO
> RUN SYS:MAILER
> RUN SYS:MAPPER
> RUN SYS:LPTSPL
> RUN SYS:LPTSPL
> RUN SYS:CDRIVE
> RUN SYS:SPRINT
> JOB 0 /LOG OPERATOR XX OPERATOR
> ENA
> ^ESET LOGIN PSEUDO
> ^ESET LOGIN CONSOLE
> ^ESET OPERATOR
> PTYCON
> GET SYSTEM:PTYCON.ATO
> /
> JOB 1 /LOG OPERATOR XX OPERATOR
> ENA
> RUN SYS:BATCON
> /
> JOB 2 /LOG OPERATOR XX OPERATOR
> ENA
> RUN SYS:FAL
> /
> JOB 3 /LOG OPERATOR XX OPERATOR
> ENA
> RUN SYS:NETCON
> /
>
> Note that the manual used "\LOG" rather than "/LOG" but was contradictory on
> this as in some places it was one and in others it was the other.
>
> I tried a loopback test, which failed as per the attached log file.
>
> One more data point. When I use UETP to verify the configuration I get these
> errors in the log:
>
> $TYPE EXCEPT.LOG.2
>   ERROR VF2020           27-May-2013 10:32:24                0:00:00
> 0:00:00
> ? Mismatch occurred during verification:
>          Currently installed file: PS:<DECNET>DECNET.BWR.1 644032 P
>          Correct file:             PS:<DECNET>DECNET.BWR.1 556602 P
>
>
>   ERROR VF2020           27-May-2013 10:32:24                0:00:00
> 0:00:00
> ? Mismatch occurred during verification:
>          Currently installed file: PS:<DECNET>DECNET.DOC.1 350434 P
>          Correct file:             PS:<DECNET>DECNET.DOC.1 614303 P
>
> They suggest that the docs are not right, but nothing else.
>
> Regards
>
> Rob
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Timothe Litt [mailto:litt at ieee.org]
>> Sent: 27 May 2013 14:35
>> To: Robert Jarratt
>> Cc: simh at trailing-edge.com
>> Subject: Re: [Simh] Netcon
>>
>>> owever, I still see one end repeatedly sending the first DDCMP message
>>> (05 06 C0 00 00 01), but nothing else happens, no response going the
>>> other way, no messages on the console etc. I notice that I do get this
>>> message on bootup though: SJ 3: $RUN SYS:NETCON SJ 2: ?ILLEGAL
>>> INSTRUCTION 0 AT 236246 SJ 2: ?UNDEFINED OPERATION CODE SJ 3: SJ 3: %
>>> NETCON: COULD NOT OBTAIN NETWORK TOPOLOGY Could it be that I still
>>> don't have the right version of DECnet on this virtual machine?
>>> Thanks! Rob
>> Er, are you still running cloned systems?  Make sure the node number and
>> name are different between the two.
>>
>> As I wrote, I'd need to debug this, but it's possible that NETCON just
>> isn't graceful about this.
>>
>>
>> This communication may not represent my employer's views,
>> if any, on the matters discussed.
>>
>>
>>


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