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From: nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA (Frank J. Nagy/VAX Guru)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: #$@&^%! DEC
Message-ID: <870929043150.026@Lbl.Arpa>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 07:31:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 07:31:49 1987
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> AFTER SPENDING AN ENTIRE DAY INSTALLING VMS 4.6 AND ALL THE UTILITIES
> ONLY TO BE TOLD BY A MEMBER OF THE NETWORK STAFF AT THE CSC THAT DECNET
> V4.4 WON'T WORK WITH A VMS 4.6 SYSTEM.  AM I BLIND?  DOES IT SAY THAT
> ANYWHERE IN THE INSTALLATION MANUAL?  DECNET IS USED EVERYDAY AND I CAN'T
> WAIT FOR V4.6.  SO I'M STUCK GOING BACK TO VMS4.5 FOR NOW AND TRYING TO
> CALL THE LOCAL SALES OFFICE TO SEE IF I CAN BORROW A DECNET 4.6 TK-50.
     
We have VMS V4.6 up and running on a dual-MicroVAX LAVC.  As the release
notes stated, we had to reinstall both the DECnet and LAVC keys.  For the
DECnet key, we used the one we got with VMS V4.4.  I believe that this is
the same key which shipped with VMS V4.0; the product kit name is NETRTG040.

We also have MicroVMS V4.6, but have not yet installed it (so many things
to install, so little time... :-).  We did get a new DECnet V4.6 kit for
MicroVMS since for MicroVMS this kit contains more than just the enabling
key.

So, if you are installing VMS, use your existing DECnet key to enable
routing.  If you are installing MicroVMS, you should have gotten a new
MicroVMS DECnet kit (if not, see your local office).  To the best of my
knowledge, that's the story.

= Frank J. Nagy   "VAX Guru"
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