Network issues with PersonalAlpha container

Gremlin,

when starting DECnet Phase IV or DECnet-OSI with Phase IV compatible adressing, the MAC address of the LAN interface is being changed to the DECnet MAC address (AA-00-04-00-xx-yy). You need to start DECnet before starting TCPIP. Changing of the MAC address may 'confuse' the underlying network stack(s). You can check the current MAC address with SDA> SHOW LAN/FULL/DEV=EWA (look for Physical address at the bottom of the first page shown).

That the system can ping itself, does not prove anything. Such an ICMP packet never reaches the LAN interfaces.

You cannot draw any conclusions from just a NETDLLERR crash, especially if you don't provide more information from the CLUE file (especially module and offset of the crash). Feel free to send me the full CLUE file (CLUE$COLLECT:CLUE$node_ddmmyy_hhmm.LIS).

Volker.

Yes, downloaded it about four days ago. It automatically removed the earlier version, or so it said <img src='../images/smiley/smile.gif' alt='smiley'>

Hi Volker

Just scratching my head about how to get the file to you - there being no network connection the the machine.....and it is too big to capture it in screen buffer I think....

LAN Data Structures

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-- EWA Device Information 20-MAY-2010 23:50:59 --

LSB address 8385C000 Driver code address 81DFBD80
Driver version 00000001.08310124 Device1 code address 00000000
Device1 version 00000000.00000000 Device2 code address 00000000
Device2 version 00000000.00000000 LAN code address 81DFD400
LAN version 00000001.08310190 DLL type CSMACD
Device name EW_DE500 MOP name EWA
MOP ID 203 HW serial Not supplied
HW version 02000041 Promiscuous mode OFF
Controller mode NORMAL Promiscuous UCB 00000000
Internal loopback OFF All multicast state OFF
Hardware address 08-00-2B-DE-50-00 CRC generation mode ON
Physical address 08-00-2B-DE-50-00 Full Duplex Enable ON
Active unit count 7 Full Duplex State ON
Line speed 100

Flags: 00000140 TIMER,FAILDEV
Char: 000000C4 MULSEG,LINKVALID,AUTOVALID

Press RETURN for more.

Gremlin,

re: SDA&gt; SHOW LAN output

you've either NOT started DECnet or you're not running DECnet Phase IV compatible protocol. SDA&gt; SHOW LAN would show all protocols running on your LAN adapter. Which version of DECnet are you running:

$ MC NCP SHOW EXE
or
$ MC NCL SHOW IMPLEMENTATION


re: CLUE file

Look at my profile for my mail address. The CLUE file is only a couple of pages of plain ASCII text. Use cut & paste or the Putty logging feature and TYPE/NOPAGE the CLUE file.

Volker.<hr>

Show LAN
LAN Data Structures

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-- EWA Device Summary 20-MAY-2010 23:50:59 --

LSB address = 8385C000
Device state = 00000103 RUN,INITED,RING_AVAIL

UCB UCB Addr Fmt Value Client State
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EWA0 82147F40
EWA2 8214C780 Eth 60-07 SCA 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA5 821E6AC0 802E 08-00-2B-80-3C DNAME 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA6 8221D2C0



LAN Data Structures

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-- EWA Device Summary 20-MAY-2010 23:50:59 --

LSB address = 8385C000
Device state = 00000103 RUN,INITED,RING_AVAIL

UCB UCB Addr Fmt Value Client State
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EWA0 82147F40
EWA2 8214C780 Eth 60-07 SCA 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA5 821E6AC0 802E 08-00-2B-80-3C DNAME 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA6 8221D2C0 Eth 80-3C DNAME 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA7 82254400 802E 08-00-2B-80-3E DTIME 0017 STRTN,LEN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA9 8225EAC0 Eth 08-00 IP 0015 STRTN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA10 822B3F80 Eth 08-06 ARP 0015 STRTN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA11 822B4400 Eth 86-DD IPV6 0015 STRTN,UNIQ,STRTD
EWA12 822CC280 Eth 00-00 0000
EWA13 822D4C00 Eth 00-00 0000
EWA14 822E3040 Eth 00-00 0000
SDA&gt;


GAMMA::[SYSERR] &gt; mc ncp sho exe


Node Volatile Summary as of 21-MAY-2010 21:12:47

Executor node = 1.3 (GAMMA)

State = on
Identification = DECnet-OSI for OpenVMS

Clue coming soon