[Info-vax] How to convert a cluster-seeking vax into a networked stand-alone machine

[Carlos Murillo]

On Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 8:55:39 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2019-05-08 04:51:21 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
> 
> > On 2019-05-07, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> >> On 2019-05-08 00:10:27 +0000, Carlos Murillo said:
> >> 
> >>> So what is the solution? Can I just grab a higher-numbered version of  
> >>> TCP/IP Services and install it? Or is there a workaround?
> >> 
> >> OpenVMS VAX V7.3 with the associated TCP/IP Services stack?something  
> >> approaching "recent", at least as far as OpenVMS VAX can be "recent"?  
> >> and stop trying to re-find and re-experience the legions of bugs and 
> >> limitations that were fixed over the years?
> > 
> > I also hope the OP has thought about if their environment means they 
> > need to deal with the multiple vulnerabilities present in those 
> > versions.
> 
> OP is using telnet and OpenVMS VAX.  Security is clearly not an issue.  
> There was a different telnet loop back in that range, too.  Fossil 
> versions have fossil bugs, and fossil vulnerabilities.  Etc.

Hello everyone;

This system is in my home network and serves hobby purposes.  It lies in a 10bT branch with other old systems such as Mac 68Ks and a vaxstation 2000, but only rarely are there more than two systems powered up in this branch, so the router doesn't usually send much stuff their way;  and there aren't too many broadcast messages either.  I may install 7.3 later, but on a different disk (probably a SCSI2SD card actually).  The traffic in this branch is not too much and it doesn't seem to affect the rest of the network even when there's appleshare traffic in it.

Thanks to everyone for your help.

Carlos.