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From: jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CMU TCP/IP on an 8530
Message-ID: <13032@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 02:12:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: comp.13032
Posted: Thu Oct 22 02:12:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 20:41:28 EDT
References: <8710210517.AA25313@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jonathan@comp.vuw.ac.nz
Followup-To: comp.os.vms
Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria Univ, Wellington, New Zealand
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Keywords: CMU TCP/IP, DELUA, Logical names
Summary: Use logical names

In article <8710210517.AA25313@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> LUSGR@LEHICDC1.BITNET (Steve Roseman) writes:
>
>    We are running CMU TCP/IP (v6.0) on an 8530.  It simply(!!!) took a patch
>to change one occurance of 'XE' to 'ET' at address 6A8. 

I came against something like this when using the last Tektronix
distribution on a Microvax II, using a configuration file that
specified XEA0. The ACP wouldn't start, because of course the Microvax
had a DEQNA not a DEUNA. The first solution I came up with was to
	$ DEFINE/SYS XEA0 XQA0
 (or maybe it was $ DEFINE/SYS/EXEC, I forget which), and to leave the
reference to XEA0 in the configuration file. It worked just fine.
Actually, the software *did* support DEQNAs; the documentation was out
of date.

I don't see why you could't just
	$ DEFINE/SYS XEA0 ETA0
and put
	Device_Init:XEA0:...:
in your internet.config file. No patches, no hassles when a new
release of the software comes out :-).  After all, this sort of
problem is just why VMS has logical names!
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