[Info-vax] DECnet connection problem

[Dennis Grevenstein]

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 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.

No, that's not the case. I tried booting only the 5.5 system
and I still can't connect to or from the 8.3 host.
I also tried connecting from an ULTRIX 4.5 host. Works fine.

Dennis

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