<div dir="ltr">Tony & Jordi,<div><br></div><div>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:12.8px">TUN/TAP, VDE or SLiRP (NAT) I can't even connect to my emulated VAX via telnet or ftp?</span></div></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 4:39 AM, Jordi Guillaumes Pons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name" target="_blank">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On 7 Dec 2017, at 05:24, Shaun McCloud <<a href="mailto:shaun.thomas.mccloud@gmail.com" target="_blank">shaun.thomas.mccloud@gmail.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_913457509282517617Apple-interchange-newline"></span><div><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div>I have OpenVMS VAX 7.3 running in SimH on my Windows laptop, and I am trying to use networking using the WiFi on the laptop. However, I am getting an IP address of <a href="http://0.0.0.0/8" target="_blank">0.0.0.0/8</a> in OpenVMS and obviously this is not the IP range I use at home (it is <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?</div><div><br></div></span><div><div>(…)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div> </div><div>; Attach Ethernet to a network interface</div><div>set xq mac=00:00:01:00:00:01</div><div>attach xq eth1</div><div>;</div><div>; Uncomment the line below to enable auto-boot</div><div>dep bdr 0</div><div>;</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></span></div><div>Hello Shaun,</div><div><br></div><div>What version of simh are you using? With the current beta version (4.0) you don’t need to load the microcode (it’s builtin in the simulator). I encourage you to try the current development version.</div><div><br></div><div>As for your specific problem, the only dubious thing I see in your INI file is the MAC address you are setting. I’d say that is not a valid Ethernet address. The current version can randomly generate a valid MAC address. I’ve attached the relevant HELP information at the end of this message.</div><div><br></div><div>Please take into account that with your configuration you will NOT be able to “see" the simulated VAX from your laptop. To be able to establish communication between your host and the guest you should use TUN/TAP, VDE or SLiRP (NAT). In the case you go for SLiRP you will be limited to TCP/IP networking. Anyway, you can’t do DECNET over WiFi, so that’s probably OK with you. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">XQ Configuration Set commands Subtopic? mac</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">MAC</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> The MAC address of the controller is the Hardware MAC address which on</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> real hardware is uniquely assigned by the factory. Each LAN device on a</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> network must have unique MAC addresses for proper operation.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> sim> SET XQ MAC=<mac-address></span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> A Valid MAC address is comprised of 6 pairs of hex digits delimited by</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> dashes, colons or period characters.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> The default MAC address for the XQ device is set to a value in the range</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> from 08-00-2B-00-00-00 thru 08-00-2B-FF-FF-FF.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> The SET MAC command must be done before the XQ device is attached to a</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> network.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> Additional information available:</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> Generated_MAC</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">XQ Configuration Set commands MAC Subtopic? generated</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Generated MAC</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> Support exists to provide a way to dynamically generate relatively</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> unique MAC addresses and to provide a way to save generated addresses</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> for subsequent reuse in later simulator invocations.</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> sim> SET XQ MAC=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF{/bits}{><wbr>filespec}</span></div><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961);min-height:14px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> </span><br class="m_913457509282517617webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> where:</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> 1. All of the AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF values must be hex digits</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> 2. bits is the number of bits which are to be taken from the</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> supplied MAC aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff with legal values from 16</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> to 48 and a default of 48 bits.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> 3. filespec specifies a file which contains the MAC address</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> to be used and if it doesn't exist an appropriate generated</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> address will be stored in this file and a subsequent SET MAC</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"> invocation specifying the same file will use the value stored</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"> in the file rather than generating a new MAC.</div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Andale Mono";color:rgb(40,254,20);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.901961)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><br></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>