[Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring
Zane Healy
healyzh at avanthar.com
Thu May 9 11:35:28 EDT 2019
Have you tried running over a wired connection, rather than a wireless connection? You might also try running SIMH under a Linux VM.
Zane
> On May 9, 2019, at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Welch <jhwelch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> ----------
>
> 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>
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