<div dir="ltr">I'm trying with NAT right now, do to TUN/TAP on Windows do I just install the OpenVPN client and then tell SimH to use that interface?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Shaun McCloud, MCDST</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Vorländer, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MV@pdv-systeme.de" target="_blank">MV@pdv-systeme.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Simh [mailto:<a href="mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh-bounces@trailing-<wbr>edge.com</a>]
<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Shaun McCloud<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2017 15:04<br>
<b>An:</b> Jordi Guillaumes Pons <<a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name" target="_blank">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a>>; <a href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com" target="_blank">simh@trailing-edge.com</a>; <a href="mailto:tony.nicholson@computer.org" target="_blank">tony.nicholson@computer.org</a><br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [Simh] VAX SimH network not working<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your help. When it comes to DECNET, I don't really care about that since right now I have a single VMS emulated system. I am running the current beta version so I will try it without the microcode. If I'm understanding
correctly, unless I do <span style="font-size:9.5pt">TUN/TAP, VDE or SLiRP (NAT) I can't even connect to my emulated VAX via telnet or ftp?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="http://172.16.6.0/24" target="_blank">172.16.6.0/24</a>). Below is my current vax.ini so I don't have to type all the commands every time. Does anyone see anything with it that could cause the problem I'm seeing?<u></u><u></u></p>
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