FYI rwhod problems

Chuck Privitera crp at ccivax.UUCP
Wed Nov 14 07:01:25 AEST 1984


	Just FYI. Since I saw one complaint about something not
working right with the itt interface from harvard (and because I
spent some time on it). Those of you using the itt driver (does
TCP/IP over tty lines for those that don't know), you may also
see seemingly catatonic behaviour from rwhod. The problem is that
when a system has > ~11 users, the structure that rwhod broadcasts
becomes larger than the defined MTU (maximum transmission unit) for
the itt interface. This causes the sendto() in rwhod to fail with
EMSGSIZE (the write failed because it could not be atomic). For the
rest of you with REAL network interfaces, you can expect to see this
seemingly catatonic behaviour from rwhod after ~59-60 users.



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