[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Hobbyist Program Announced.

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 16 June 2019 12:15:17 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Söderholm  wrote:
> A few quick notes from first startup.
> 
> As noted before, the download was a but slower than exepected.
> No big deal with that...
> 
>  From start of the downloaded EXE installer to having an logged
> in OpenVMS envrionment it took maybe 2-3 minutes.
> 

[snip]

> Then I tried to setup the network interface. Followed the "Getting
> Started" PDF manual (that is upacked into the install directory)
> and used the "Virtual Alpha Configuration Utility".
> 
> Now, when trying to select a "network card" to pci11, I just get
> "Invalid adapter: ask" besides of "Dummy network" as Interface
> options.
> 

[little snip]

> So, my remaining issue now is that I cannot select one of my laptop
> network interfaces in my setup.
> 
> Next step would be to check my pile of unused laptops and try
> one of those...
> 
> Jan-Erik.

In the absence of other suggestions, and in the likely absence 
of me having enough time to look into this in the near future
though I'd very much like to have a chance before too long,
the place I'd probably start looking for the network issues (if
I had time) is whatever flavour of winpcap/ipcap/etc is in use
on the Windows system in question.

More specifically, the software/OS interface between FreeAXP/Avanti
and whichever packet capture facility it uses to get access to its
host's network.

It's even referenced in various official and unoffical docs for 
Avanti/FreeAXP. 

No guarantees. However applications such as Wireshark which use 
similar mechanisms to implement their packet capture facilities 
have been affected by similar problems too. 

Best of luck,
John Wallace