upgrade vms 7.3-2 to 8.3 problems

[robert70]

I have upgraded a DS20E which was running VMS 7.3-2 (TCPIP V5.4) to VMS 8.3 (TCPIP V5.6-9ECO5).
The 8.3 is patched with the UPDATE-1200 patch kit.

The upgraded server is on our LAN here and while previously we could PING/FTP/TELENT to our other ALpha Server - this is no longer working?

Any obvious patches I have missed?

Regards
Roger

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

is TCPIP running ? Is there a TCPIP interface ?

$ TCPIP SHOW INT

Does $ TELNET LOCALHOST work ? And $ TCPIP PING LOCALHOST ?

Volker.

[robert70]

TCPIP is running yes
I can PING & TELNET to localhost yes


$ tcpip show int

Interface IP_Addr Network mask Receive Send MTU

IE0 129.94.185.46 255.255.255.128 283 20 1500
LO0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 216 216 4096

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

can you ping the default gateway (find it with TCPIP SHOW ROUTE and the gateway address for AN 0.0.0.0) ?

Volker.

[robert70]

Not sure what you mean here sorry.

I think our gateway is 129.94.185.1
but I cant ping that.
When i do a show route I get lots of routes with the gateway on the right hand column all showing 129.94.185.1.

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

the default gateway should also be visible with TCPIP SHOW ROUTE/PERM.

Check the LAN interface counters with

$ MC LANCP SHOW DEV/COUNT EIA

And check for any LAN driver messages with

$ MC LANCP SHOW DEV/INT EIA

Does ARP work and return the MAC addresses of IP nodes on your network ?

$ @SYS$MANAGER:TCPIP$DEFINE_COMMANDS
$ ARP -a

Volker.

[robert70]

ARP returns this on our upgraded system....

CHAS.chasdomain (129.94.185.45) at (incomplete)

We are also experiencing problems with our LIVE box when this newly upgraded box is on the network. In particular users connecting with Pathworks are losing there mapped shares. Incidentally the Upgraded Server has no pathworks installed.

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

same IP address on more than 1 system ? Or same MAC address (DECnet) ?

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

easiest way to check MAC address is:

$ SHOW DEV/FULL EIA0 (on V8.3)

$ ANAL/SYS
SDA> SHOW LAN/FULL/DEV=EIA (on V7.3-2)

When DECnet starts and you're running DECnet Phase IV or DECnet-OSI with Phase IV compatible address, it changes the MAC address of the LAN interface to AA-00-04-00-xx-yy (with xx-yy being set based on the DECnet address)

Does $ SHO NET show the same DECnet address on your LIVE and upgraded system ?

Volker.

[robert70]

$tcpip show route/perm

on both LIVE server and UPGRADED server we have:-

PN 0.0.0.0 128.64.32.1

The 128.64.32.1 is an old IP address which we havent been using for about 5 years.
We now use 129.94.185.1

IS this a problem area? The fact that the LIVE server is working with this?