[Simh] Networking help with 4.3 BSD Quasijarus running on SimH microvax

[Henry Bent]

On 4 November 2017 at 20:51, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11/4/17 7:41 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
>
> On 4 November 2017 at 20:23, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
>
>> Beyond that, it just looks like your name resolution is totally failing.
>> Can you ping some known address without involving dns or any sort of name
>> translation? Try something like ping -n 8.8.8.8 and report the result (the
>> -n is important here).
>>
>
> That isn't going to work, Quasijarus doesn't have ping -n.  Just -d, -r,
> and -v.  I guess I should really just install Quasijarus myself so that I
> have a better troubleshooting platform, I've been looking for an excuse to
> do that for a little while anyway.
>
> -Henry
>
> Well, Johnny's comments helped a bit. I went back and retooled and now I
> can ping localhost and 192.168.0.132 and quasijarus, but nothing outside
> the box. Here are the pings and netstats:
>
> # ping localhost
> PING localhost (0.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 0.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0. time=10. ms
> ^C
> ----localhost PING Statistics----
> 4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 0/7/10
>
> # ping 192.168.0.132
> PING 192.168.0.132: 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.132: icmp_seq=0. time=20. ms
> ^C
> ----192.168.0.132 PING Statistics----
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 10/13/20
>
> # ping quasijarus
> PING quasijarus (192.168.0.132): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.132: icmp_seq=0. time=0. ms
> ----quasijarus PING Statistics----
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max = 0/0/0
>
> # ping 192.168.0.1
> PING 192.168.0.1: 56 data bytes
> ^C
> ----192.168.0.1 PING Statistics----
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
> # ping 8.8.8.8
> PING 8.8.8.8: 56 data bytes
> ^C
> ----8.8.8.8 PING Statistics----
> 4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
>
> # netstat -rn
> Routing tables
> Destination      Gateway            Flags     Refs     Use  Interface
> 0.0.0.1          0.0.0.1            UH          0       11  lo0
> 192.168.0.132    0.0.0.1            UH          1       28  lo0
> default          192.168.0.1        UG          0        4  qe0
> 192.168          192.168.0.132      U           0       28  qe0
>
> # ifconfig qe0
> qe0: flags=43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING>
>         inet 192.168.0.132 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>
> # netstat -in
> Name  Mtu   Network     Address            Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs  Coll
> qe0   1500  192.168     192.168.0.132          5     0       10     0     0
> lo0   1536  0           0.0.0.1               63     0       63     0     0
> #
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
Will,

I duplicated your Quasijarus setup as closely as possible - I followed all
the setup instructions on the tavi.co.uk site to the letter, and duplicated
your network setup exactly (save for the fact that my home network is
192.168.1/24 rather than 192.168.0/24).  I am able to ping my local gateway
(192.168.1.1) and use that same IP to resolve addresses but I don't get
responses to external traffic:

# ping www.netbsd.org
PING www.netbsd.org (199.233.217.205): 56 data bytes
^C
----www.netbsd.org PING Statistics----
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

I can connect to an FTP server on my home network but not to an external
one:

# ftp 192.168.1.63
Connected to 192.168.1.63.
220 aelfric FTP server (Version 6.4/OpenBSD/Linux-ftpd-0.17) ready.
Name (192.168.1.63:root): ^C
# ftp ftp.gnu.org
ftp: connect: Connection timed out

Setting "ifconfig -trailers", which has helped with connection problems on
ancient BSDs before, made absolutely no difference.

So even if you do manage to get to the point where local network traffic is
okay, external traffic probably isn't going to be.  At this point, to be
perfectly honest I think I've reached the limit of how much I'm willing to
investigate Quasijarus, especially as I have determined to my satisfaction
that this is not a SIMH problem.  My suggestion would be to move to an
older version of NetBSD, maybe 1.4 or 1.5, or if you're set on 4.3BSD to
try one of the other variants.  I've never had any networking issues with
vanilla 4.3 or 4.3-Reno.  There are installation instructions at
http://gunkies.org/wiki/4.3_BSD and associated pages, though you should be
forewarned that they are not quite as detailed as the Quasijarus
instructions you found.

-Henry
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