[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

[Ian Miller]

On Friday, April 7, 2023 at 3:52:24 PM UTC+1, issinoho wrote:
> On Friday, 7 April 2023 at 12:31:26 UTC+1, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > On 2023-04-06, Andrew Back <and... at carrierdetect.com> wrote: 
> > > Software and PAKs download and going to give it a go with Qemu. 
> > > 
> > I wonder what the criteria is for people being offered access ? 
> > 
> > I have also received nothing, but it's clear others have. (Not that it 
> > matters at the moment anyway because I am currently way too busy with 
> > other things. :-)) 
> > 
> > I wonder if VSI are manually selecting a few people to offer it to 
> > before making it generally available to hobbyists ? 
> > 
> > It's certainly not just being a member of the community program 
> > because I've been registered there since HPE stopped offering 
> > hobbyist licences. 
> > 
> > Simon. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> > Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
> 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.

DHCP client on OpenVMS is not used much so I'm not surprised. I've seen issues in the past with it on the rare occasion I've used it.