[Simh] Vax.exe emulator and Multinet network configuring
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Thu May 9 15:14:21 EDT 2019
On 2019-05-09 19:30, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> On Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 9:54 AM, Jonathan Welch wrote:
>> 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.
>
> As I suggested, without DECnet, you should probably get success with a NAT
> connection using either a wired or a wireless host network. DECnet over
> wireless probably isn't going to be achievable since many WiFi environments
> are particularly IP centric and don't pass arbitrary other packets, and even if
> they did, you would have to convince the host NIC to use a DECnet MAC
> address for everything. There probably isn't a way to set the host
> network device's MAC address so that won't get you there.
DECnet won't work for the same reason his attempt at IP didn't work, and
is the reason for your NAT: solution in simh. But NAT: obviously only
works for IP.
Johnny
>
> - Mark
>
>> 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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