[Info-vax] No outgoing TCP/IP traffic to local PC and/or the Internet

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Nov 17, 7:08 pm, DTL <didier.mora... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Another one :
>
> I'm running  Personal Alpha + VMS 8.3 on a PC.
> I can solve DNS via the routing param I gave with TCPIP$CONFIG,
> actually my ADSL router which also does DHCP. Address is 192.168.1.1
> Emulator is 192.168.1.13, local PC is 192.168.1.20
> I can do FTP from the PC to VMS, I can ping from VMS to the router,
> but I cannot ping anyone else, including the PC (real issue when you
> want to do a $ set display/create...)
>
> What did I forgot pls ?
>
> Thanks a lot.

Hi Didier,

I am not an expert in this field, but I have the same experience.
Personal Alpha is not able to contact its host directly. I do not know
why.

I am running Personal Alpha on Windows XP on VMware Fusion on Mac OS
X. In this setup, Personal Alpha cannot communicate with Windows XP,
but it can communicate with Mac OS X. Also, Windows XP can communicate
with Mac OS X.

Interestingly, when I run a second Windows XP virtual machine with
Personal Alpha, I can cluster the two OpenVMS instances together. A
cluster in a box!

Regards,

Bart