Upgrade of Alpha Open VMS 7.1 to boot on a DS-20E

[Steven Schweda]

> Sorry I am so bad at describing the problem
> precisely.

Same here.

> Does the above help at all ?

Some. Not much.

> These Alpha boxes are used to communicate
> with Yokogawa ECGW3 gateways.

Let's try not to care for now.

> It communicates to 2 networks (1 people, 1
> instrumentation).

Two physically separate networks? IP
addresses? Netmasks?

> What I've tried.
> [...]

What are the IP address and netmasks for
these systems?

> I was hoping that I needed to do TCPIP
> config some how.

If you haven't done any, then you may need to
do some. The usual starting place is:

@ SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$CONFIG.COM

but you will need to fill in some blanks with
locally valid information.

Can you use something simple like PING or
Telnet to test the IP communication between
these systems?

[Allan Dillon]

Okay some gaps I can fill.

Both networks have a mask of 255.255.255.0

People Network address 134.144.68.16
Instrument 134.144.69.16

Physically separate.

Yes it pings (on both DS-20E and old DEC 3000 600 server)

TCPIP> Ping Glgyg1A (name) Pings
TCPIP> Ping 134.144.69.14 (Address) Pings

Router 134.144.68.1 and 134.144.69.1

Our test/debugging program returns the following.

Local host GLGCTL (upper case)
Remote host GLGYG1A
Remote port 31000
VMSChannel 336
Device name _BG9320:
Returned Status 556

[Steven Schweda]

> People Network address 134.144.68.16
> Instrument 134.144.69.16

And these are the addresses of what?

> Yes it pings [...]

And "it" is what?

> TCPIP> Ping Glgyg1A (name) Pings
> TCPIP> Ping 134.144.69.14 (Address) Pings

Where did you do this? What is Glgyg1A?

I'm sure that some of this stuff is clear to
you, but you're talking to people who know
only what you tell them, and so far you have
not offered a useful description of much.

Some things which might be nice:

A list of host names and addresses. (This
includes addresses for all interfaces on each
host, if there are multiples.)

TCPIP SHOW INTERFACE

Some evidence of who can talk to whom.

[Allan Dillon]

Sorted !

Steven I owe you serveral beers/Slabs.

When I checked the TCPIP host names I found
that both ethernet devices were the same.
Our old VAX is like this too.
Once I made the second ethernet address unique (Glg69Ctl) it worked...

That's why it communicated with the 1 ethernet device.

Many thanks to everyone who commented it all helped.

[Allan Dillon]

Sorted see previous response.