[Info-vax] DECnet Phase IV broken after VSI update

[abrsvc]

On Monday, November 1, 2021 at 10:23:44 AM UTC-4, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 10/29/2021 1:56 PM, Dave Froble wrote: 
> 
> > Recently I installed VSI VMS V8.4 2L3 on an RX2660 system. 
> > 
> > DECnet is not working. 
> 
> I just checked the sources for NETACP.EXE and NETDRIVER.EXE, and there was a single change between V8.4-2L1 and V8.4-2L3. 
> 
> It was a change that I made that fixed a problem in searching the binary trees in the volatile database 
> for node entries. 
> 
> That code is only used for searching the node entries themselves, since node databases can hold up to 63*1024 entries 
> and needed some form of optimization. 
> 
> The other volatile databases (line, circuit, object, etc...) hold far fewer entries, and are not implemented as binary 
> trees. 
> 
> I'm pretty sure the DECnet Phase IV code is not broken. 
> 
> -- 
> 
> -- Rob

I don't believe that DECnet is broken either.  A clean installation works as expected.  There is something in the upgrade process that breaks existing DECnet systems.
This is what was reported and is of concern.