[Simh] MicroVax 3900 Networking on a Macbook Air

[Zachary Kline]

Portability and convenience. The router is in an odd place, and not really easy to plug much of anything into.
It’s a legitimate solution though, I’m just not thrilled with the idea. :)
> On Oct 3, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Mike Hebel <nimitz at nimitzbrood.com> wrote:
> 
> Can I ask an obvious question here?  Can't you avoid the whole issue by using a USB Ethernet adapter and a cable to the back of the router?  Is the wifi just for portability within the physical space?
> 
> (If this was already answered I missed it and apologize.)
> 
> --
> Mike
> 
> 
> "Right then!  This won't be big on dignity!" - The Doctor
> 
>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 19:21, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I was wondering if anybody could give me some tips on networking with my MacBook air. I used to run a virtual VMS system a few years back, but that was on Windows and/or Linux, with access to “real,” ethernet devices.
>> I’ve since switched to the wifi-only Macbook Air, and it isn’t cooperating very well. My copy of TCPIP services fails to get a DHCP lease.
>> I know that bridging with wifi adaptors is problematic, but I built with the OS X native LibPcap support, and I thought it might help.
>> 
>> Here is my simh version info
>> 
>>   Simulator Framework Capabilities:
>>       64b data
>>       64b addresses
>>       Ethernet Packet transport:PCAP:UDP
>>       Idle/Throttling support is available
>>       Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
>>       Asynchronous I/O support
>>       FrontPanel API Version 1
>>   Host Platform:
>>       Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.0.0 (clang-700.0.72)
>>       Simulator Compiled: Sep 30 2015 at 21:53:11
>>       Memory Access: Little Endian
>>       Memory Pointer Size: 64 bits
>>       Large File (>2GB) support
>>       SDL Video support: No Video Support
>>       RegEx support for EXPECT commands
>>       OS clock tick size (time taken by msleep(1)): 2ms
>>       OS: Darwin Zacharys-MacBook-Air.local 15.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 15.0.0: Tue Sep 22 20:33:10 PDT 2015; root:xnu-3247.10.11.1.1~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>> 
>>       git commit id: c3a879da
>> 
>> Show xq eth:
>> 
>> ETH devices:
>> eth0    en0                                  (No description available)
>> eth1    awdl0                                (No description available)
>> eth2    bridge0                              (No description available)
>> eth3    en1                                  (No description available)
>> eth4    udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport (Integrated UDP bridge support)
>> 
>> en0 is the wifi adaptor I’m interested in, and bridge0 is an OS X-provided THunderbolt Bridge, which doesn’t seem particularly useful for my purposes.
>> 
>> Any advice would be appreciated. :)
>> Thanks much,
>> Zack.
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