Conference 7.286::fddi

2081.0. "DEFPA and Decnet line FPA-0" by COMICS::WARDJ () Mon Jul 08 1996 10:37

    Hello,
    
    A customer has a DEFPA installed in a Alpha running VMS V6.1-1h2,
    Decnet iv was running using fwa-0 line & circuit names. The customer
    then upgraded to VMS V6.2 & then VMS V6.2-1h2. 
    
    After doing this, when they tried to "set line fwa-0 state on" in ncp
    they got the following error:-
    
    "invalid identification format name"
    
    I got the customer to re run netconfig and the commands that were run
    in this file were using "FPA-0" as the line & circuit type.
    
    After using this name (FPA-0), Decnet started ok.
    
    Does anyone know where this line & circuit name are picked up from?
    Has it changed in the later versions of VMS?
    
    Any help appreciated.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jon Ward
    
    UK CSC Comms.                                      
    
    

>>    Has it changed in the later versions of VMS?

The DEFPA wasn't supported in V6.1 (although an unsupported driver
was given out for people desperate to use the DEFPA).

- Dick

    Thanks for the reply Dick,
    
    Was it supported in VMS V6.1-1h2 ?
    
    From stars, it shows the following:-
    
    System Type    Bus    Controller      Driver       Circuit/Line
    
                   PCI      DEFPA      SYS$FWDRIVER        FWA-0 
    
    But netconfig picked up the circuit/line type of FPA-0 and I wondered
    if this could have been changed in some way by the customer, and if so
    where.
    
    Regards,
    
    Jon
     

>>    Was it supported in VMS V6.1-1h2 ?

It looks like it was supported there.  But the correct circuit name wasn't
selected until V6.2.

- Dick