21 Mar
2024
21 Mar
'24
11:02 p.m.
On 21/03/2024 21:51, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote:
Assuming you find a solution for the console port
issue, can't you just
try netbooting it and see what mac address the load requests have?
You could either use some ethernet monitoring software such as tcpdump,
ethermon, wireshark or whatever or your MOP server may even report
load requests it sees on the network to OPCOM.
I have a W7 system running SIMH that I was going to configure as the
cluster master ... I completely forgot that I could just turn on the
OPER console replies and look for a message. I can even boot the
VS400-60 over the ethernet to prove that I have SIMH configured properly.
Of course, I don't know that the console ethernet works, but this would
tell me pretty clearly one way or the other.
Thanks for that: I blame the 5 hours of driving for me missing the
obvious, but it might be the 20+ years of not fiddling with OpenVMS on a
daily basis :-)
Antonio
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