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. 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 <m...@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> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh