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

[Dave Froble]

On 11/1/2021 10:59 AM, abrsvc wrote:
> 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.
>

Dan, that is what Rich reported, not what I reported.  Mine was a ??clean??
install of 2L3.  My problem has been solved, I think.

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