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From: Paul Sture <p...@sture.ch>
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Subject: Re: Alpha vms Tcpip questions
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 20:47:39 -0500, badger007 wrote:

> Hello This is badger007 back to being a badger

Hello badger.
 
> 
> I really dont understand option 2 on the main menu of the uxc on the
> alpha .. it makes you post a domain. I dont have a local domain
> 
> It makes you use dhcp and i need a static ip for my router
> 
> the alias option dont really understand how to use that one.

I have logs of the sessions I used to set up TCP/IP services with a fixed 
IP address back in 2000.  This was with earlier versions of both VMS and 
TCP/IP Services and the dialogues have changed, but there was sufficient 
information there to get me going with more up to date versions.


Configuring TCP/IP Services from scratch via TCPIP$CONFIG.COM and using 
the menus:

http://openvms.sture.ch/tcpip_config.txt

Configuring TCP/IP Services from scratch, but using CLI commands to set 
up the gateway and DNS entries:

http://openvms.sture.ch/tcpip_config_partial.txt