Peter,

Can you tell me what you needed to do to get to your starting point:

>
>Now I did the following:
>- start up simh
>- CTRL-E to stop startup
>- sho xq eth  to list the available adapters
>- the VMWare adapter stuff shows up, I note the device name (eth1 in my
>case)
>- attach xq eth1
>- (update the VAX.INI to attach to eth1)
>- start up the VAX
>- Modify the IP address to use one of the 192.168... range of the VMWare
>network
>- Restart UCX
>

I have installed the Tun/Tap drivers on my OS X 10.5.3 Mac and I can see the '/dev/tap' and '/dev/tun' devices but nothing shows up in 'ifconfig -l'. I have written to the person who wrote the driver who said that this is "normal":


>What you see (i.e. the character devices existing, but no network
>interfaces) is actually intended behaviour. The network interfaces are
>created only after a program opens the corresponding character device.
>After that, e.g. ifconfig can be used to configure the device. So what
>you'll probably want to try is to point your emulator at the character
>device (I don't know about SIMH, so I cannot say how this is done
>exactly) and see whether you have the tun or tap interface when the
>emulator has started up.

When I type the "sho xq eth" command as per your example, I get a message that says that nothing was found.

I'm obviously missing some step in a process that I really don't quite understand (note to self: learn about *nix networking) so some guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Susan

