Re: [Linux-decnet-user] lat RPM and simh

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:53:48PM -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Patrick, can you elaborate on this? I am about to plunge into the fray,
> regarding Linux, and DECnet, and SIMH. And, naturally I need som advice. I
> can make my binaries for SIMH, without any problems, but its the networking
> configuration issues that drive me into the levels of frustration, and
> upset.
> 
> Are there any caveats that we need to know? And what operating sysrems were
> you running on your SIMH instance?

you need to build the emulators using "make USE_NETWORK=t" to enable networking
in the binaries - only pdp11 and vax work BTW.

I've successfully run VMS, netbsd (on VAX) and RSX11M with networking under
simh, you need to attach the device to a network card in the linux box with the
command "att xq eth0" - also, you need to run as root because it puts the card
into promiscuous mode. I'm not sure that there's a way around this, because of
the need to respond to various multicast addresses as well as the machine's
actual hardware address.

I've not been able to communicate between the host machine and the emulated one
but others seem fine

Here's some config files:

patrick