[Info-vax] upgrading from VMS 7.3-2 and TCPIP 5.4 ECO 7 to VMS 8.4 and TCPIP 5.7

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) skrev den 2015-05-17 15:14:
> I upgraded a while back, but had read so much about the difficulties of
> this TCPIP upgrade and the lack of documentation concerning it,
> especially with respect to SMTP, that I have put off looking at it until
> now, and avoided using TCPIP on the upgraded node.
>
> I was surprised about two things.  First, it doesn't appear that any of
> the TCPIP$* files were modified by the upgrade (yes, I did move files
> back to the system disk for the upgrade).  Second, although I haven't
> done any extensive tests, it seems that everything just works.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> I haven't re-configured TCPIP since the upgrade.  Is this necessary?
>
> Are the 5.7 and 5.4 configuration files compatible with each other, i.e.
> could I reconfigure with common files?  Or do I have to reconfigure, use
> these as the new common files then upgrade the other nodes?
>

As I remember, it is mostly (only?) SMTP that has a new config method.

When I look at my system, I have these files in the CPIP$SMTP_COMMON
directory:

$ d TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON/since=25-feb-2012/bef=27-feb-2012

Directory SYS$SPECIFIC:[TCPIP$SMTP]

TCPIP$SMTP.CONF;1                  4  26-FEB-2012 15:27:32.42
TCPIP$SMTP_OSSBY1.LOG;1            1  26-FEB-2012 15:27:34.17
TCPIP$SMTP_PRE_V57_CONFIG.BCK;1    9  26-FEB-2012 15:27:32.07
TCPIP$SMTP_V57_ROLLOVER.LOG;1      2  26-FEB-2012 15:27:32.28

Total of 10 files, 22 blocks.
$

So the 5.7 install reads the old config and creates
the new TCPIP$SMTP.CONF file. And yes, SMTP "works" with
no other (manual) config directly after the upgrade.

If there are other subsystems apart from SMTP that has similar
new config file formats, I don't know.

As far as I remember the TCPIP 5.7 just "worked".
And that was "as exepcted" also, I must say.

I have only made one change to the CONF file after the
upgrade, changed "Alternate-Gateway: xxx".

Jan-Erik.