[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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