Tim Wilkinson wrote:
> ...snip...]
>> $ tcpip show version
>
> and as if by magic :-
>
> TCPIP> show version
>
> Compaq TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS VAX Version V5.1
> on a VAXserver 3900 Series running OpenVMS V7.3

Yep, if I recall correctly, version 5.1 didn't subnet properly.

>>> Advice please guys how do I fix this
>> Simple: install a more recent version where subnetting works.
>
> And here lies the rub. I am using simh and a hobbyist install at home. No
> access to updates etc. Not like when I had multitude of real vaxes and
> support contracts etc. (go on what is the collective noun for a group of
> vaxes and don't tell me it is a cluster) It is just my home network for ease
> is vpned into the company network otherwise I would have stuck with
> addresses that had their subnets in the recognised class ranges

"No access to updates" ??

Sure you have ... you just need to ask politely here ;-)

Do you have access from your home network to the big, bad,
outside world ?