[Info-vax] TCPIP tying up system

[Ken Fairfield]

On Nov 29, 12:26 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
[...]
> And for those cases where terminals are unresponsive but console
> access is available?
>
> I can't remember if there's an official procedure, but getting to
> console mode (>>> on Alpha) and depositing rubbish (eg a 1) in the PC
> springs to mind. It worked on my PWS when I tried it not long ago, but
> that's not a very extensive sample. Also, different consoles have
> different syntax, iirc some have a "crash" command, etc.

Certainly on VAXes, you could Ctrl-P and do all sorts of
stuff.

Most "modern" Alphas don't respond to Ctrl-P.  :-(  They
have a "reset" button.  That gets you to the console, but
I don't seem to recall whether you can, at that point, get
a crash dump.  It probably depends upon the specific
Alpha and its firmware revision.

For those Alphas that have RMC in the console firmware,
I do believe you can get into RMC (<esc> <esc> RMC)
and type "crash", but one would want to, as you said,
plan ahead and make sure that command was available
and does what you want.

I've no experience with Itanium systems, so no comments...

   -Ken

>
> To fail to plan is to plan to fail, etc.
>
> regards
> john