[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-04-08 16:04, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> issinoho <iain at issinoho.com> wrote:
>>    VSI TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS x86_64 Version X6.0
>>    on a VMware, Inc. VMware7,1 running OpenVMS E9.2-1
>>
>> I've found the DHCP functionality pretty broken in this - I'm assuming
>> it's TCPIP 6 rather than anything to do with x86, but who knows...
>>
>> DHCP assigns the interface address and routing fine, but Bind doesn't get
>> Configured or Enabled.  Doing this manually gets things working, however
>> as soon as a reboot kicks off the DHCP process again, Bind loses it's
>> settings.  Strangely, this also means that the result of a "show network"
>> command displays an unconfigured IP stack even when it's working.
>>
>> Moving to static IP fixes all of the above.
> 
> Last night, I brought up TCPIP with DHCP, and was able to connect to the
> system just fine.  So at least very basic DHCP seemed to work.  Having said
> that one of the first things I did this morning was to convert to a Static
> IP, as I have DNS setup for my home network.

Nothing in that prevents you from still using DHCP, though. I used DHCP 
even for machines with fixed IP. I have it configured in my DHCP server 
to give fixed IP addresses to specific MAC addresses, and DNS 
configuration is also handed out via DHCP. I just like administrating it 
all in one place. :-)

   Johnny