[Info-vax] A 5 minutes hang during early stage of a shutdown.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kdpqvk$rmc$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> Can't see why. TCP/IP uses whatever MAC address you have. If it's been 
> modified or not by DECnet don't make a difference to TCP/IP.
> What would upset TCP/IP would be if it is started before DECnet, and 
> DECnet then changes the MAC address for an already running TCP/IP.

   There have been some IP stacks on VMS that couldn't handle having
   the MAC change after they started, but have since been modified to
   deal with it.  Don't know the current state of any of them.