[Info-vax] VMS PCAP Kit

[El SysMan]

понедельник, 9 декабря 2019 г., 17:28:21 UTC+3 пользователь gérard Calliet написал:
> Le 06/12/2019 à 11:52, El SysMan a écrit :
> > среда, 4 декабря 2019 г., 18:46:41 UTC+3 пользователь osuv... at gmail.com написал:
> >> On Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at 5:03:30 AM UTC-5, El SysMan wrote:
> >>> Hi All!
> >>>
> >>>   Found in my archives vms-pcap kit. Is there someone who know author (-s)?
> >>>   What is the status of the package?
> >>
> >> I played some with the VMS-PCAP sources in the Simh kit last April. The source file comments indicate it was written by Anders Ahgren in 2003 with some fixes by Matt Burke in 2011.
> >>
> >> I made one change to a MACRO routine that would return a length R0 unless it returned a error condition code instead. I made it put the length in a argument so it didn't have to disambiguate whether 12 was the header length or an ACCVIO.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> Hello,
> 
> We needed 2 years ago a pcap on VMS itanium. Because they had been some 
> crashes, we had a fruitful collaboration with Dick Stockdale (VMS 
> Software) who helped us on his free time (he has not a lot of it). Dick 
> is in charge of new ethernet and tcpip on VMS.
> 
> What we have got is not perfect - no more time for Dick and for us to 
> develop - and is not published - same reason -.
> 
> We used it for 2 years, and have to choose another solution because simh 
> itself has very bad performance on Itanium / VMS compared to other 
> platforms. And because no one finds time to address these performance 
> issues on VMS (have a look in simh news group).
> 
> If you are interested I can have a look on what remains on our sites and 
> give to you as is.
> 
> Gérard Calliet

Hello!

 Thanks for the answer Gerard!

 Yes, i'll appreciated if u will take a time slice to find something.
 At least it will be useful for VMS noobs like me. :-)