[Info-vax] strange LAT problem

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <575d6b06-f99c-44fa-9c32-bf451ed1f7c7 at googlegroups.com>, Hans
Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 

> Have a look at how LAT operates, the way it uses protocol specific MAC addr=
> esses. IIRC LAT MAC addresses start with 09- but I do not know how the lowe=
> r half is used. That part, the node specific part, may cause confusion (dup=
> licate entries) if DECnet is not started.=20
> In other words: does the problem go away if DECnet is configured?

I've been running my VMS cluster for more than 20 years, always with 
LAT, never with DECnet.  The problem appeared only after replacing a 
node, which also has errors on the SCSI bus, so my guess is that this is 
somehow related to the problem.  I'll try replacing the cards and see 
what happens.  However, it happens only in about 1 in 8 boots of the 
satellite and is easily fixed by restarting LAT (even though it is 
already running), so it has low priority for me (life is short).