<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Mark<br><br>Thanks for the help and encouragement.  TCP is working fine now.<br><br>I downloaded, built and used SIMH V3.9-0 by following the instructions in the 0readme_ethernet.txt for tap:tap0 installation.  ping, finger, ftp and telnet are all working fine, both to/from VMS, the SIMH host and to/from other computers on my network.<br><br>Great job!  Nice work to you and David Hittner and many others no doubt.<br><br>David.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 9/4/12, Mark <span>Pizzolato</span> - Info Comm <i><Mark@infocomm.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark@infocomm.com><br>Subject: RE: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet<br>To: "david.d.miller@att.net" <david.d.miller@att.net>, "simh@trailing-edge.com"
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 install make</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ apt-get install libpcap-dev</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ apt-get install libvdeplug2-dev</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ apt-get install vde2</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ apt-get install bridge-utils</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"
 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ apt-get install uml-utilities</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Some or all of the above may have been already done in your environment, but it won’t hurt anything to do them again.  They will need to be done as root.</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"
 style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">To build the vax simulator:</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ wget </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv39-0.zip">http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv39-0.zip</a></span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span
 style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ mkdir simhv3.9-0</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ cd simhv3.9-0 </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ unzip -a ../simhv39-0.zip</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin-top:0in;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  $ make vax</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"></span></p><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
 "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">The vax simulator binary will be in BIN/vax.  This simulator has built in support for all of the available networking options.  Details are available in 0readme_ethernet.txt in the simhv3.9-0 directory.</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">  </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman";">          </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Mark</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">
  </span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>david.d.miller@att.net<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> simh@trailing-edge.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet</span></p></div></div><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal">  </p><table class="yiv1235676988MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="top"><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal">Mark<br><br>Well I'm just lazy and use the Ubuntu
 GUI tools (Ubuntu Software Center and synaptic) to download and build.  I realize their databases often aren't up-to-date.  But you bring up a good point.  Would this problem be solved easier with 3.9?<br><br>David.<br><br>--- On <b>Tue, 9/4/12, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Mark@infocomm.com">Mark@infocomm.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</p><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br>From: Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Mark@infocomm.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=Mark@infocomm.com">Mark@infocomm.com</a>><br>Subject: RE: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet<br>To: "Sergey Oboguev" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:oboguev@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=oboguev@yahoo.com">oboguev@yahoo.com</a>>, "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net"
 target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>>, "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 11:41 AM</p><div id="yiv1235676988"><div><div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Hi David,</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p
 class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">I’m wondering why you are not using simh v3.9.  </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">If I had been participating in this discussion from the beginning I’d have recommended you start from the latest released code since there were numerous networking changes included there.</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",
 "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">The simh v3.9-0 release code is available at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv39-0.zip">http://simh.trailing-edge.com/sources/simhv39-0.zip</a></span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msolistparagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">-</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"serif";color:#1F497D;">          </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">Mark</span></p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><p
 class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com">simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com</a> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:[mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com]" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=[mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com]">[mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Sergey Oboguev<br><b>Sent:</b>
 Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:57 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>; <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet</span></p></div></div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"> </p><div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal">(typos fixed)<br><br>Hi David,<br><br>To begin with, on host side you have network mask for A-class IP address defined as for C-class address.<br>Which *may* be ok, but subnet/broadcast masks definitions mismatch on host side and VAX side.<br>You need to have them equal.<br>This also distorts routing table on the host side.<br><br>See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_classes">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_classes</a><br><br>Note "may" in "may be ok". Though A/B/C class scheme is supposed to be retired, I'd rather stick to standard masking as initial step, just because not all software, especially legacy software, may implement non-standard masking 100% correctly. (As a matter of fact I have a set-up that uses A-class private subnet, but it uses standard-size A class masks, i.e. 255.0.0.0 rather than 255.255.255.0.)<br><br>Fix this for a start and see what happens.<br><br>This said, it is suspicious that DELQA MAC address does not appear in list of MAC addresses seen by the bridge and that tap0 counters are all 0.<br><br>But begin by fixing masks, do some pinging, and if it still does not work repost new data.<br>Also see if SHOW DEVICE XQ /FULL indicates any errors.<br><br>- Sergey</p><div><div><div><div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"> </p><div><div
 class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>><br><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Tue, September 4,
 2012 10:10:52 AM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet</span></p><table class="yiv1235676988MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;" valign="top"><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal">Sergey<br><br>I printed the data you asked for and made no changes to VAX because they looked OK to me.  TCPIP SHOW ROUTE looped and produced no output.<br><br>I appreciate your examination of this problem.<br><br>Diagnostic data follows......<br><br><br>On Linux(Ubuntu) IP: 10.0.0.2 kermel 2.6.38-15-generic .....<br><br>david@Thinkpad:~/vax$ ifconfig<br>br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:36:29:e6:7b  <br>          inet addr:10.0.0.2  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0<br>          inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fe29:e67b/64
 Scope:Link<br>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1<br>          RX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>          TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br>          RX bytes:811 (811.0 B)  TX bytes:16459 (16.4 KB)<br><br>eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:36:29:e6:7b  <br>          inet6 addr: fe80::216:36ff:fe29:e67b/64 Scope:Link<br>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1<br>          RX packets:81237 errors:0
 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>          TX packets:73843 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br>          RX bytes:80090941 (80.0 MB)  TX bytes:11682488 (11.6 MB)<br>          Interrupt:16 <br><br>tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 86:bc:f0:f2:2c:de  <br>          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1<br>          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
 <br>          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)<br><br><br>david@Thinkpad:~/vax$ brctl show<br>bridge name    bridge id        STP enabled    interfaces<br>br0        8000.00163629e67b    no        eth0<br>                            tap0<br>david@Thinkpad:~/vax$ brctl show br0<br>bridge name    bridge id        STP enabled    interfaces<br>br0        8000.00163629e67b    no        eth0<br>                           
 tap0<br>david@Thinkpad:~/vax$ brctl showmacs br0<br>port no    mac addr        is local?    ageing timer<br>  1    00:0d:4b:4b:3d:ab    no           6.52<br>  1    00:16:36:29:e6:7b    yes           0.00<br>  1    00:21:6a:75:6d:04    no          63.15<br>  2    86:bc:f0:f2:2c:de    yes           0.00<br>  1    e0:46:9a:58:62:14    no          31.61<br>david@Thinkpad:~/vax$ route -n<br>Kernel IP routing table<br>Destination     Gateway        
 Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface<br>10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 br0<br>0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 br0<br><br>In SIMH ......<br><br>sim> sho ver<br>VAX simulator V3.8-1 [64b data, 64b addresses, Ethernet support]<br>sim> show xq<br>XQ, address=20001920-2000192F, no vector, MAC=08:00:2B:AA:BB:CC, type=DELQA, poll=100, attached to tap0<br><br>In OpenVMS V7.3  on node MYVAX   4-SEP-2012 <br><br>$ tcpip show interface
 /full<br> Interface: LO0<br>   IP_Addr: 127.0.0.1         NETWRK: 255.0.0.0         BRDCST:<br>                                                           MTU:  4096<br>     Flags: UP LOOP NOARP MCAST SMPX<br>                                  RECEIVE        SEND<br>  
 Packets                              0           0<br>     Errors                             0           0<br>   Collisions:                          0<br> <br> Interface: QE0<br>   IP_Addr: 10.0.0.99         NETWRK: 255.0.0.0         BRDCST: 10.255.255.255<br> Cluster  <br>   
 C_Addr:                 C_NETWRK:                 C_BRDCST:<br>                       Ethernet_Addr: 08-00-2B-AA-BB-CC    MTU:  1500<br>     Flags: UP BRDCST RUN MCAST SMPX<br>                                  RECEIVE        SEND<br>   Packets                             
 0           5<br>     Errors                             0           0<br>   Collisions:                          0<br> <br>$ tcpip show route /full<br>MYVAX::SYSTEM 09:53:18 TCPIP$UCP CPU=00:00:03.15 PF=4490 IO=341 MEM=931<br>MYVAX::SYSTEM 09:53:22 TCPIP$UCP CPU=00:00:03.15 PF=4502 IO=347 MEM=943<br>MYVAX::SYSTEM 09:53:29 TCPIP$UCP CPU=00:00:03.16 PF=4502 IO=353 MEM=943<br> Interrupt <br><br>SHOW ROUTE just hangs .. well, I see it's doing I/Os, but no results.<br><br>$ mc tcpip$ping 10.0.0.2<br><br>Hangs as well. <br><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 9/3/12, Sergey
 Oboguev <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:oboguev@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=oboguev@yahoo.com">oboguev@yahoo.com</a>></i></b> wrote:</p><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;"><br>From: Sergey Oboguev <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:oboguev@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=oboguev@yahoo.com">oboguev@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br>Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 5:34 PM</p><div><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal">Did you remember to configure the interface in TCP/IP services for OpenVMS?<br><br>Assuming for the sake of example that your host uses IP
 address 192.168.21.3 for <br><br>(initially) eth0 and (subsequently after bridging) br0, and assuming you want to <br>assign <br><br>IP address 192.168.21.200 to VAX instance, you need to configure QE0 inside VMS <br>as follows:<br><br>    $ TCPIP SET INTERFACE QE0 /HOST=192.168.21.200 <br>    $ TCPIP SET CONFIGURATION INTERFACE QE0 /HOST=192.168.21.200<br><br>Depending on exact value of network addresses being used and network topology it <br><br>may be necessary to additionally specify options /NETWORK_MASK=n.n.n.n and <br>/BROADCAST_MASK=m.m.m.m, although usually VMS TCP/IP picks correct defaults for <br>the masks.<br><br>If it still does not work, please post the output of<br><br>    $ TCPIP SHOW INTERFACE /FULL<br>    $ TCPIP SHOW ROUTE /FULL<br><br>and (in Linux)<br><br>    ifconfig br0<br>    ifcongig eth0<br>    ifconfig tap0<br>    brctl show<br>    brctl
 show br0<br>    brctl showmacs br0<br>    route -n<br><br>and (at SIMH command console prompt)<br><br>    show xq<br><br>Thanks,<br>Sergey<br><br>________________________________<br>From: "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>><br>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br>Sent: Mon, September 3, 2012 4:10:48 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Simh] Connecting to Ethernet<br><br><br>Sergey<br><br>That was a big help, but I'm not there yet.  I did the following<br><br>$ sudo ./ linux-tap.sh create br0 eth0 tap0 david<br>$ sudo vax    ; to start
 SIMH<br>simh>   ; the usual stuff<br>simh> set xq mac=bla bla<br>simh> att tap0  ;  hooray, this is the first time this succeeded.<br>simh> boot cpu<br><br>When logged into VMS, I could PING and TELNET to LOCALHOST (and 127.0.0.1).   <br>But alas, not to my physical host.  And my physical host can't see the VAX <br>either.<br><br>But I did so many things to get to this point that something else might be <br>screwed up, so I need to reboot linux and start this drill again.<br><br>Thanks for a great start!<br><br>Any other suggestions?<br><br>--- On Mon, 9/3/12, Sergey Oboguev <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:oboguev@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=oboguev@yahoo.com">oboguev@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br>>From: Sergey Oboguev <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:oboguev@yahoo.com" target="_blank"
 href="/mc/compose?to=oboguev@yahoo.com">oboguev@yahoo.com</a>><br>>Subject: Re: [Simh] Basic questions<br>>To: <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:david.d.miller@att.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=david.d.miller@att.net">david.d.miller@att.net</a>, <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</a><br>>Date: Monday, September 3, 2012, 12:20 PM<br>><br>><br>>> In particular I get the following error:<br>>> david@Thinkpad:~$ sudo brctl addbr br0<br>>> david@Thinkpad:~$ sudo ifconfig tap0 up<br>>> tap0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device<br>><br>>Perhaps because <br>><br>>    /usr/sbin/tunctl -t $TAPDEV -u $USERID<br>><br>>is missing.<br>><br>>You may find the following script helpful:  <br>><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
 href="http://oboguev.net/misc/linux-tap.sh.txt">http://oboguev.net/misc/linux-tap.sh.txt</a><br>><br>>Usage is at the bottom or invokable as<br>><br>>    ./linux-tap.sh help<br>> </p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="yiv1235676988msonormal"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="yiv1235676988MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";">  </span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></table>