[Simh] NetBSD 6.1 networking using Npcap

[Mark Pizzolato]

On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 9:32 AM, Peter Conrad Cumminsky wrote:
> I'm having an issue with installation on NetBSD 6.1.5 in SimH on Wondows 10.
> I don't know all the answers to the network configuration part of the
> installation from CD-Rom. My Npcap is recognized when I run the init in SimH
> and works fine on OpenBSD 5.8 but I can't seem to figure out how to get it
> working on NetBSD. The question about "Media type" I just hit [Enter] for the
> default but I don't have an answer the question for "DNS
> Domain". Attached a screencap of the screen output of the script.   Here's
> my script:
> 
> load -r \SIMH\bin\ka655x.bin
> set cpu 256M
> set cpu idle=netbsd
> at nvr vax.nvr
> 
> set rq0 rauser=5000
> at rq0 netbsd.dsk
> 
> set rq3 cdrom
> at rq3 NetBSD-6.1.5-vax.iso
> 
> at xq0 nat:tcp=10022:10.0.2.15:22

The subject of this message specifically mentioned Npcap, while your 
ATTACH XQ command explicitly uses NAT.  NAT and Pcap networking 
are mutually exclusive choices.  Only one is meaningful at any point 
in time.

Additionally, simh NAT support is ONLY IPv4.

As for answering the network setup questions.  I suspect that the default
Media type should be fine and it really doesn't matter what you specify
for DNS domain since the system's networking is NATed and generally
won't be visible by external systems and won't be able to reach other 
systems on a LAN since it is the only system on it's LAN.

Have fun.

- Mark