[Info-vax] DECnet connection problem

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-10-04 17.23, Dennis Grevenstein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe someone can help on a DECnet problem.
> I have the following setup:
> Alpha running 8.3
> emulated VAX running 7.3
> emulated VAX running 5.5
> The problem is that 8.3 and 5.5 can't talk via DECnet.
> 7.3 can talk to 5.5 and 8.3. Both emulated machines
> run on the same physical box. all machines can connect
> to each other using tcpip. When I SET HOST from 8.3
> to 5.5 I just get a timeout. Everything is on the same
> ethernet.
>
> Is there anything obvious I am missing here?

Um. Is the emulation setting the MAC address of the interface used? If 
so, this will totally fail, since the last machine to boot will "win" in 
the MAC address setting competition.

DECnet is based on the idea that the MAC address of the controller is a 
known value, based on the DECnet address.

	Johnny