Re: dhcpcd not working in simh-vax with xq0:nat networking

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2021-12-10 21:57, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
> On Friday, December 10, 2021 at 12:07 PM, Rhialto wrote:
> > On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 19:48:43 +0000, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm wrote:
> > > I will track this down if you can provide me with a pointer to a disk image
> > > (hopefully compressed) that demonstrates the problem.
> >
> > Thanks! I was thinking in first instance it would be a NetBSD weirdness,
> > but maybe it isn't. I only tried the microvax3900, not other models.
>
> It may be NetBSD weirdness, or it more likely a general weakness in the
> dhcpd in the simh NAT code.  The NAT code comes from what was originally
> slirp.  The NAT dhcp activities under simh haven't generally gotten much (if
> any) exercise since I think that only NetBSD has a dhcp client.  Maybe
> Johnny's RSX TCP stack also has a dhcp client, but users probably haven't been
> using NAT.

Yes, my TCP/IP for RSX also have a DHCP client, but I suspect very few 
have found the simh NAT functionality, or used it.
I tested that it worked, but never tested DHCP over it. But I saw 
another comment that you fixed something, so I suspect there was some 
problem there...

  Johnny

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