SLIP for ix386 (Summary)

[david nugent]

In <1990Jul05.135330.749 at iti.uucp> jay at iti.uucp (Jay Rohr) writes:

>>Suggested fixes:
>>     1) Get ix386 2.2
>>     2) Get the TCP/IP package release 1.2 and try it out under 2.0.2

>We have tried a beta TCP/IP 1.2 under 386/ix 2.0.2 and it did not work
>completely!! Interactive connections seen to be OK and 'rcp' works, but
>FTP does not.  FTP file transfers complete with out an error message, 
>but the file is short.  Seems that on a slow link (i.e. SLIP) the close
>connection indication reaches the receiver before the last data packets.
>We have not tried the new ix386 2.2 package yet to see if the problem 
>still exists.
 

Most likely it will, but I suspect the problem is more in your streams
configuration rather than ftp itself.  Installing the package requires
that you tune streams fairly carefully.

Until I upgraded a large TCP/IP site from 2.0.2 to 2.2 I had the 1.2
TCP/IP working fine; telnet rcp & ftp.  The only (!) problem I did have
was not being able to access more than 17 telnet sessions.  Attempting
to do so caused the WD8003 card to lock up and cause panic traps when
the system was being shut down.

This particular problem was solved shortly after 2.2 was installed.


david

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