[Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring
Jonathan Welch
jhwelch at gmail.com
Thu May 9 12:54:05 EDT 2019
I just moved to a wired connection and now am having success. Good
point about walking before running.
I'm on npcap 0.994 current as of last night.
I turned off DECNET to eliminate one source of possible trouble. It
would be nice to have it on at some point in the future.
sim> sho ver
MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Current
Simulator Framework Capabilities:
64b data
64b addresses
Threaded Ethernet Packet transports:PCAP:NAT:UDP
Idle/Throttling support is available
Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) support
RAW disk and CD/DVD ROM support
Asynchronous I/O support (Lock free asynchronous event queue)
Asynchronous Clock support
FrontPanel API Version 12
Host Platform:
Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ 15.00.30729.01
Simulator Compiled as C arch: x86 (Release Build) on May 1 2019 at 23:0
0:06
Memory Access: Little Endian
Memory Pointer Size: 32 bits
Large File (>2GB) support
SDL Video support: SDL Version 2.0.8
PCRE RegEx (Version 8.36 2014-09-26) support for EXPECT commands
OS clock resolution: 1ms
Time taken by msleep(1): 1ms
OS: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Architecture: x86 on AMD64, Processors: 8
Processor Id: Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel, Level:
6, Revision: 2a07
git commit id: ab3e07a4
git commit time: 2019-05-01T22:56:54-07:00
sim>
On 5/9/19, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:00 AM, Jonathan Welch 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.
>
> First: Learn to walk before you run. Meaning, get things working with
> a wired network connection BEFORE you try to use a wireless solution.
>
> Second: It seems that you might be using a somewhat recent version
> of simh since you've got a SHOW ETHERNET command, but it would be
> useful to see the output of a SHOW VERSION command. The latest
> Windows binaries are available at:
> https://github.com/simh/Win32-Development-Binaries
>
> Third: Since you've disabled DECnet, that might mean that all you care
> about is IP so, you may be able to achieve that both wired and wirelessly
> if you use a NAT: attachment for your XQ device.
>
> - Mark
>
>
>> 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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