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

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 8:32:26 AM UTC+13, Dave Froble wrote:
> One of your fine support people mentioned to me:
>
>} By default, DECnet Phase IV installation and configuration will enable DECnet protocol
>} on all available interfaces on the system. Once configured, the system administrator
>} would want to go into NCP and purge all lines and circuits that are not needed from
>} the database.
>
> I never knew that. 

There is something to be said for the convention that a subsystem will, by default, *not* look at any hardware unless it has been explicitly configured to do so.