When running an Emulated VAX/Alpha in a VM, you may need to create the MAC addresses for the emulated network adapters to be the MAC address that decnet will assign them.
I just stumbled on a site that makes it easy:
http://powerdog.com/addrconv.cgi
Just enter in your Decnet Phase IV address, and click on convert to an Ethernet address.
#!/usr/bin/python3
## A script to calculate the SCSSYSTEMID value, which is used in
## VAX/VMS and OpenVMS for system identification and DECNET networking
## purposes. See: https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/SCSSYSTEMID
import sys
# Get the area, node as integers.
area = int( input( "Enter the DECNET area number: " ) )
node = int( input( "Enter the DECNET node number: " ) )
# Check for valid values. Area must be 1-63, inclusive,
# node must be 1-1023, also inclusive. Exit error if not.
if ( area not in range( 1, 64 ) ) or ( node not in range( 1, 1024 ) ):
print( "Error: invalid area/node given." )
sys.exit( 1 )
# We have valid input by this point. Calculate it.
# SCSSYSTEMID = ((DECnet area number) * 1024) + (DECnet node number)
scssystemid = area * 1024 + node
# Display the results along with the given input.
print( f"SCSSYSTEMID for {area}.{node} is {scssystemid}." )
malmberg August 04 2022 No more VAX hobbyist licenses.
Community licenses for Alpha/IA64/X86_64 VMS Software Inc.
Commercial VMS software licenses for VAX available from HPE.
ozboomer July 20 2022 Just re-visiting.. No more hobbyist licenses? Is that from vmssoftware.com, no 'community' licenses?
valdirfranco July 01 2022 No more hobbyist license...sad
mister_wavey February 12 2022 I recall that the disks failed on the public access VMS systems that included Fafner
parwezw January 03 2022 Anyone know what happened to FAFNER.DYNDS.ORG?
I had a hobbyist account here but can longer access the site.
gtackett October 27 2021 Make that DECdfs _2.1A_ for Vax
gtackett October 27 2021 I'm looking for DECdfs V2.4A kit for VAX.
Asking here just in case anyone is still listening.
MarkRLV September 17 2021 At one time, didn't this web site have a job board? I would love to use my legacy skills one last time in my career.
malmberg January 18 2021 New Hobbyist PAKs for VAX/VMS are no longer available according to reports. Only commercial licenses are reported to be for sale from HPE
dfilip January 16 2021 Can someone please point me to hobbyist license pak? I'm looking for VAX/VMS 7.1, DECnet Phase IV, and UCX/TCPIP ... have the 7.1 media, need the license paks ... thanks!
