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Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time

From jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.sys.pdp10
Subject Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time
Date 2025-12-16 11:35 -0500
Organization Atr2 RG 2025
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Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:

> 2025 - 28 = 1997
>
> Thus, to start your system today, give the date 15-Dec-1997.
>
> Beginning in 2028, subtract 56 from the current year.
Noted, although the tests from early spoofed 98, I'll use 97 hereafter.

Networking is working. I had to re-run mongen.mic. After some tweaking I
must've not re-run it. DECnet works, I stayed logged in from a VMS node
for hours yesterday, and today TOPS-20 logged in to TOPS-10 with
sethost. No LAT though, though it looks like it should work.

❰jayjwa❙~❱✔≻ llogin amatsu
@login (USER) jayjwa (PASSWORD) 
 Job 12 on TTY121 ATR2:/dev/pts/12(LAT) 16-Dec-2025 10:55:22
  Last interactive login 16-Dec-2025 10:50:48
  Last non-interactive login 15-Sep-2025 18:14:08
 End of LOGIN.CMD.10
@sethost nergig
[Type ^Y to return to node AMATSU]

KL704 07:46:05 TTY44 system 1025
Connected to Node AMATSU
[Checking terminal type . . .

unknown]
Please LOGIN

.LOGIN
Job 3  KL704  TTY44
#100,100
Password: 
[LGNLAS Last access to [100,100] succeeded on 15-Dec-98:18:28:28]
07:43   16-Dec-98   Wednesday

.DIR


WORK    LOG     1  <057>   15-Dec-98    DSKB:   [100,100]

.TYPE WORK.LOG
00100   I'm testing networking in 2025.
00200   This is very laggy but works, mostly.

.Day: :01:04 Run: 0.05 Rd:48 Wr:4 PIP 4+11P Ctx:1  ^C  PC:400213
.kjob

❰jayjwa❙~❱✔≻ ncp tell nergig show exec char

    Executor node = 1.15 (NERGIG),
    Identification = DECnet-10 Version 4.0,
    Management Version = 4.0.0, Loop count = 1, Loop length = 127,
    Loop with = Mixed, Incoming timer = 30, Outgoing timer = 60,
    ECL version = 4.0.0, Maximum links = 65535, Delay factor = 48,
    Delay weight = 10, Inactivity timer = 120,
    Retransmit factor = 10, Routing version = 2.0.0,
    Type = Non-Routing IV, Routing timer = 600,
    Broadcast routing timer = 40, Maximum address = 1023,
    Maximum circuits = 20, Maximum cost = 100, Maximum hops = 16,
    Maximum visits = 20, Max broadcast nonrouters = 64,
    Max broadcast routers = 32, Maximum buffers = 80,
    Buffer size = 576, Segment buffer size = 576

View from SYSANS:
Ethernet Status of KL704 16-Dec-98 07:48:58 UP:13:27:55 
 
Chan/Kont          State      E-Net Address          DgmXmt     DgmRcv 
ETH-0              Online   AA-00-04-00-0F-04             0          0 
  NI-0             Online   00-00-02-C7-17-D0             0          0 
 
Protocol           State    Kont      User           DgmXmt     DgmRcv    FQE 
  60-03 DECnet     Online   NI-0   System              4163        923      0 
  60-04 LAT        Online   NI-0   System              1616          0      0 
  90-00 Loopback   Online   NI-0   System                 0          0      0 
  60-02 RmtCon     Online   NI-0   System                80          0      0 
  -Inf-            Online          Job 13 Ctx 1           0          0      0 
  60-01 DNA/MOP    Online   NI-0   Job 13 Ctx 1           0          0      0 
  -Inf-            Online          Job 2 Ctx 1            0          0      0


LAT's here but no one seems it see it.

LCP>
 7:55:44        LCP     -- Host Characteristics --

LAT Access State: ON
Host Name: NERGIG
Host id: KL704
Host number: 15
Retransmit Limit: 60
Retransmit Timer: 1000
Multicast Timer: 30
Groups: None defined


                     Current   Maximum
                     -------   -------
Allocated circuits       0        20
Active circuits          0        20
Sessions                 0        32

Service name   Rating        Identification
------------   ------   ------------------------
   NERGIG        1      KL704
LCP>

I'll probably rebuild the monitor to make it more beefy and change the
name to reflect the working networking post-2021. But while I'm here, a
couple quick questions I didn't find the answers to while looking
through all the .pdf at Bitsavers:

1. Should I delete user 100,100 (built-in, comes with system) and insert
my own, or just change the name? I know it's with REACT.

2. Any ideas what's going on with LAT? TOPS-10 is the only LAT-able
system that's not showing up.

3. What's the best method of entering node names into the DECnet
database? VMS has 'copy known nodes from whatever to both', and TOPS-20
has SETNOD. Linux has decnet.conf and Pydecnet has its own file. Right
now I'm entering them by hand with NCP> set node whatever name
whatever. There's got to be a better way. Should I make a NODES.CMD and
TAKE NODES.CMD in the startup files? Do they disappear on power-down?

4. Does TOPS-10 have any scrolly editors? Working with SOS line-by-line
makes everything take 3x as long.

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TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-14 20:55 -0500
  Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-14 21:23 -0500
    Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-12-14 18:34 -0800
      Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2025-12-15 03:04 +0000
    Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-15 14:34 -0500
      Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-15 17:03 -0500
        Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-16 11:35 -0500
          Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-12-16 22:12 -0500
            Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-17 10:31 +0100
              Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-17 11:06 -0500
            Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-17 10:56 -0500
              Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-20 13:27 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2025-12-20 13:23 +0000
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                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-25 11:35 +0100
              Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-29 17:59 +0100
          Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-28 10:47 +0100
            Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-28 18:21 -0500
              Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-29 11:07 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-29 13:20 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-29 12:22 -0500
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-29 20:43 +0100
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                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-31 15:21 +0100
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                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-31 15:20 +0100
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                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-29 12:05 -0500
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-29 19:58 +0100
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                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2025-12-31 02:21 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2025-12-31 12:17 -0500
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2026-01-01 18:32 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-02 13:27 -0500
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2026-01-05 13:37 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-05 12:52 -0500
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time "G." <nan6328@iperbole.invalid> - 2026-01-06 01:37 +0100
                Re: TOPS-10 networking in modern time jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-01-06 12:18 -0500

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