upgrade vms 7.3-2 to 8.3 problems

[robert70]

typo used proc without the e!

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

AA-00-04-00-FE-FF maps to DECnet address 63.1022 or 65535 in decimal notation (like in SCSSYSTEMID).

What does $ SHOW NET report ?

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

now that's my typo: 63.1022 or 65534 in decimal !

Volker.

[robert70]

in modparams.dat the scssystemid is set to 65533 - I ran AUTOGEN and reboot.
The MAC address is still showing AA-00-04-00-FE-FF

SHOW NET

Product: TCP/IP Node: DAVE.DAVEDOMAIN Address(es): 129.94.185.46

[robert70]

I also notice that the ALPHAVMSSYS.PAR file which I believe holds the SCSNODE and SCSSYSTEMID has not changed since yesterdays upgrade - does this mean that my AUTOGEN and reboot are not actually updating the SCSSYTEMID after all?

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

there must be some LAN protocol, which changes the MAC address to the 'OLD' DECnet MAC address.

What does MC NCP LIS EXE CHAR report ?

Look at all the LAN protocols with:

$ ANAL/SYS
SDA> SHOW LAN

Consider to put an EXIT at the beginning of SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM and see whether you're then running with the hardware address as the current MAC address. Then look thorugh your startup and start individual products until the MAC addresses changes...

Volker.

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

find out your current SCSSYSTEMID via:

$ MC SYSGEN
SYSGEN> SHOW SCSSYSTEMID
SYSGEN> EXIT

SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT changes the modification date of ALPHAVMSSYS.PAR !

How did you run AUTOGEN ? Did you look into SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT for any errors ?

Volker.

[robert70]

with sysgen
show scssytemid is showing
65534
so yes definitely still holding the wrong value as should be 65533

[Volker Halle]

Roger,

then again: HOW are you running AUTOGEN ? Leave the SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM checking until we've figured out, why AUTOGEN does not work the way you think...

Volker.

[robert70]

OK

I ran autogen by doing

$ set def sys$update
$ @autogen

this didnt ask me any other questions
just eventually returned me to the $ prompt

I have subsequently used
$ MCR SYSGEN
set scssystemid 65533
write current

and the nrebooted which has changed the mac address to AA-00-04-00-FE-FF

But I agree with you that there is something not write with the AUTOGEN phase?
I notice that a file created called setparams.dat still contains the old scssystemid 65534!