[Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring

[Jonathan Welch]

The vms systems on our campus are about to be shut down.  My former
boss and I would like to still have access to our files, so I've moved
an image of a vax system disk into simh.

He is a networking expert and I am no slouch, but neither of us can
figure out why we cannot establish any kind of network connection
outside of the simh.

I've looked back in the archives for help but have only found people
with linux systems or messages of success with UCX.

This morning I upgraded from Multinet 4.3 to 5.2 and tried to set up
DHCP but that did not work either.

Npcap is installed.

If I set my mac address to be the same as that of the host laptop I
can use wireshark to see pings coming out from the vax but there are
no responses.

I've disabled decnet from starting up to avoid the mac address from
being changed.

Some guidance in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.

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>From my vax.ini file:
set xq mac=08-24-d7-ca-1f-40
att xq eth3

>From the simh prompt:
sim> sho eth
ETH devices:
 eth0   \Device\NPF_{8E7FBCD3-67EB-4A59-8E35-6713CAB729FA} (Local Area
Connection 2)
 eth1   \Device\NPF_{EE67D248-AACC-4A29-99EE-2B84EA08B5EF} (VMware
Network Adapter VMnet8)
 eth2   \Device\NPF_{7287895B-5B94-43ED-8AA8-1FF910EA836B} (Wireless
Network Connection 2)
 eth3   \Device\NPF_{DC3CD7F8-4BD9-4610-B8DF-20AC5FBD56FC} (Wireless
Network Connection)
 eth4   \Device\NPF_NdisWanIp                              (NdisWan Adapter)
 eth5   \Device\NPF_NdisWanBh                              (NdisWan Adapter)
 eth6   \Device\NPF_{B1392056-6E69-421B-9814-6011441195C2} (Wireless
Network Connection 3)
 eth7   \Device\NPF_NdisWanIpv6                            (NdisWan Adapter)
 eth8   \Device\NPF_{C7140267-68CB-485A-B343-5751B1865242} (VMware
Network Adapter VMnet1)
 eth9   \Device\NPF_{795E27CA-60AA-4A1E-AAB0-99FB62537868} (Npcap
Loopback Adapter)
 eth10  \Device\NPF_{62CD8A59-7E13-401A-90AB-3CFBC37554E8} (Local Area
Connection)
 eth11  nat:{optional-nat-parameters}                      (Integrated
NAT (SLiRP) support)
 eth12  udp:sourceport:remotehost:remoteport               (Integrated
UDP bridge support)
Npcap version 0.994, based on libpcap version 1.9.1-PRE-GIT
Open ETH Devices:
 XQ     eth3 (Wireless Network Connection)
Ethernet Device:
  Name:                    \Device\NPF_{DC3CD7F8-4BD9-4610-B8DF-20AC5FBD56FC}
  Reflections:             1
  Self Loopbacks Sent:     2
  Self Loopbacks Rcvd:     2
  Host NIC Address:        00:24:D7:CA:1F:40
  Packets Sent:            2
  Packets Received:        26
  Asynch Interrupts:       Disabled
  Read Queue: Count:       24
  Read Queue: High:        24
  Read Queue: Loss:        0
  Peak Write Queue Size:   0
  BPF Filter: (((ether dst 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40) or (ether multicast)) and not ((et
her src 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40))) or ((ether dst 08:24:D7:CA:1F:40) and (ether src 08
:24:D7:CA:1F:40)) or ((ether dst 00:24:D7:CA:1F:40) and (ether proto 0x9000))
sim>

Multinet settings
MultiNet Network Configuration Utility V5.2(107)
[Reading in MAXIMUM configuration from MULTINET:MULTINET.EXE]
[Reading in configuration from MULTINET:NETWORK_DEVICES.CONFIGURATION]
NET-CONFIG>sho
Interface                                Adapter     CSR Address    Flags/Vector
---------                                -------     -----------    ------------
se0      (Shared VMS Ethernet/FDDI)       -NONE-        -NONE-       -NONE-
          [TCP/IP: 10.0.0.150, IP-SubNet: 255.255.255.0, IP-Broadcast:
10.0.0.255]
          [VMS Device: XQA0, Link Level: Ethernet ]
          DHCP Client for the interface is enabled


Official Host Name:             vax1
Default IP Route:               10.0.0.1
Domain Nameserver:              127.0.0.1
Timezone:                       EST
Timezone Rules:                 US/EASTERN
Load UCX $QIO driver:           TRUE
Load PWIP (Pathworks) driver:   TRUE
DHCP Client Flag:               1
NET-CONFIG>