Re: DEQNA on MicroVax II

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On September 8, 2020 5:52:40 PM Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost> wrote:
> On 2020-09-08 21:13, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On 9/8/20 2:56 PM, Mouse wrote:
>>>>> I tried pinging the gateway from the NetBSD command prompt and get
>>>>> no reply, but if I ping the MV II from another computer it responds
>>>>> just fine, so I know the DEQNA is transmitting and receiving.
>>>
>>>> Download the sets on to a machine on the local network, then fetch
>>>> them from that machine.
>>>
>>> Hm, yes, if "the gateway" is some mass-market turnkey box, it may well
>>> not get along with the VAX.
>>>
>>> And I just had another thought: trailers.  I can't recall whether
>>> NetBSD of that vintage defaulted to trailers or not; man ifconfig on
>>> one of my 1.4T SPARCs indicates *it* does, so your NetBSD might too.  A
>>> modern mass-market consumer boxof recent vintage may well not support
>>> trailers.  Try ifconfig qe0 -trailers, maybe?  And/or try pinging
>>> something other than the gateway from the VAX?  I now realize my
>>> debugging suggestions have been based on the assumption that the ping
>>> attempts have been between the same two boxen, just in different
>>> directions; I now realize that was an unwarranted assumption.
>> 
>>    What about SQE?  Every time I've run a DEQNA, I've had to enable SQE 
>> on the transceiver.
>
> People, these are all good points, but forget that pinging worked fine 
> from another machine to the VAX, but not VAX to other machine.
>
> That implies that hardware wise, all is good.

  Ahh, right.  I had forgotten.

                 -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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