[Info-vax] Migrated VMS 5.X to simh - TCPWare error

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER]

In article <50fe6fd4-0d1c-48c1-ba6e-1c228afdd8c6 at p11g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>, "gregor.oelze" <gregor.oelze at gmail.com> writes:
>@Peter
>
>> as nobody corrected me, I've to do this now for the records: It is "XQA0:"
>
>Does that mean I have to change the TCPIP_CONFIGURE.COM
>file and change QNA-0 to XQA0?

No. "QNA-0" is the line specification for TCPware (and DECnet Phase4 -
but not for DECnet Phase5 - there it is freely selectable, therefore
often defined as "CSMACD-0" and only the "COMM PORT" of the csma-cd
station has the hint "QNA" to the name of DECnet Phase4) on VMS.

The mentioned "XQA0:" is the device name in VMS.

I wrote all three naming variants in this my previous posting.
1) The name of TCPware (and DECnet) application for the ethernet adapter
2) The name of the adapter card in the system and options catalogue
"DEQNA" (and later "DELQA") which is a network interface card for the Q-Bus
3) The name of the ethernet adapter in VMS itself.

$ SHOW DEVICE XQA0:			! Eth Dev in VMS of your h/w
$ MCR TCPWARE:NETCU SHOW NETWORK	! TCPware Ifc name in "Lines" col
$ MCR TCPWARE:NETCU SHOW ROUTE		! TCPware Ifc name in "Lines" col
$ MCR TCPWARE:NETCU SHOW INTERFACE QNA-0! if you need to specify it

No, you most likely got the TCPIP_CONFIGURE.COM right now (though you
still haven't mentioned what diffs the "new" one has to the "old" one
(other than the "QNA-0" to "ISA-0" TCPware interface name of course).

Problem is, that the TCPware License checks the VAX hardware, and this
is (in TCPware's eyes) still different. Later TCPware versions (after
already mentioned rename of TCPIP_CONFIGURE.COM and SYS$SYSROOT:[TCPIP]
to TCPWARE_CONFGURE.COM and SYS$SYSROOT:[TCPWARE] ;-) use LMF PAKs, but
older ones like yours (I think, it was up to TCPware V5.3) check for
the MAC Address and "CPU" and "XCPU".

Try changing the Mac.Add of SIMH to the Mac.Add of your old/real VAX.
The CPU and XCPU parameters should now match (I hope) since you already
switched SIMH to the correct MicroVAX type and then try again:

In your VMS.INI file

set xq mac=xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx

Good luck

-- 
Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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