[Info-vax] tcpip gateway question

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:26:37AM +0000, Jan-Erik S?derholm wrote:
> > 
> > In addition to my previous MAC change observation, I discovered
> > that all nodes in the cluster have their current MAC addresses
> > for the first interface, either EWA0 (alpha) or EIA0 (i64) changed
> > to a range of incremental MAC numbers from AA-00-04-00-03-08 to
> > -06-08 (4 nodes). However, all MAC addresses for second interfaces,
> > EWB0 or EIB0 are left at default settings.
> > 
> > I'm really puzzled by this. Is this an expected behaviour?
> > Is this something to do with VMS cluster or DECnet?
> > Can I insist that the current MAC address for a particular
> > interface is left as default setting?
> > 
> 
> DECnet when started change the MAC address. And it's built up
> based on the DECnet area.node address in som e way, if I'm not wrong.

I see..

So really I either have to use EWB0 (second) interface instead of EWA0,
or disable DECnet? Is it correct that DECnet is not required for
VMS cluster or for TCP/IP?

thank you

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944
Fax: +44 (0)117 331 5924