[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]

Jan-Erik Soderholm skrev den 2015-05-17 15:30:
> 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.
>
>
>


And the "ROLLOVER" file looks like:

$ typ TCPIP$SMTP_COMMON:TCPIP$SMTP_V57_ROLLOVER.LOG
### SMTP rollover Tool ###
Log file created at : Sun Feb 26 15:27:32 2012

1037 :Step into smtp$get_existing_config.....
1074 :Start:Setting the default values
1153 :End:Setting the default values
1157 :Start Reading TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT file
1326 :End Reading TCPIP$CONFIGURATION.DAT file
1333 :Begin Read from SMTP.CONFIG file
1589 :End :Reading from SMTP.CONFIG file
1597 :Begin Reading system configuration logicals
2199 :End Reading system configuration logicals
SMTP rollover Tool completed successfully
$


Jan-Erik.