NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:              STRTLI.EXE, New SPXFIX
DOCUMENT ID:        TID000560
DOCUMENT REVISION:  A
DATE:               09AUG93
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
INFORMATION TYPE:   Symptom Solution
README FOR:         STRTLI.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NetWare for SAA 1.3
NetWare for SAA 1.2
NetWare Asynchronous Communication Services (NACS) 3.0

ABSTRACT:
Both NetWare for SAA 1.3 and NACS v3 include SPXFIX1.NLM.  NetWare 3.11
server abends have been traced to SPXFIX1.NLM.  Therefore, STRTLI.EXE
provides SPXFIX2.NLM (and ancillary files) as a replacement for SPXFIX1
(and its ancillary files).  All NetWare for SAA 1.3
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DISCLAIMER
THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. 
NOVELL MAKES EVERY EFFORT WITHIN ITS MEANS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. 
HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION
ONLY.  NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS
INFORMATION.
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Self-Extracting File Name:  STRTLI.EXE

Files Included     Size     Date        Time

  STRTLI.TXT          (This File)
    SPXS.NLM      23514    1-13-93     12:09a
    IPXS.NLM       8121   10-02-92     12:24a
     TLI.NLM      12695   12-14-92      3:21p
 STREAMS.NLM      53579   12-14-92      3:00p
 SPXFIX2.NLM       1790    4-08-93      4:21p
PATCHMAN.NLM       9632    2-04-93     10:38a
PCHMN230.DOC       6110    4-19-93      8:38p
SPXFSFIX.NLM       1742    7-20-92      3:02p
SPXLISFX.NLM       1287    2-02-93     10:11a
  XMDFIX.NLM       1496    9-15-92      3:29p


Readme for STRTLI.EXE
Aug 05, 1993

If you are using:
NetWare for SAA 1.3, or NetWare for SAA 1.2, or NACS 3.0X and an SPXS.NLM
dated after 2-14-91 we recomend that you use the SPXFIX2.NLM and the
PATCHMAN.NLM included with this in this zipped file rather than the SPXFIX1
and PATCHMAN provided on the NetWare for SAA or NACS disks.  Failure to do
so may result in server Abends.

XMDFIX.NLM.  This patch corrects a problem with utilities that use the SPX
protocol to maintain communication with the server. Typically the client
will loose the connection to the server and the following message will be
displayed:

"No more response buffers available"

The most common occurrence is with a remote printer(RPRINTER.EXE) loosing
it's connection to the print server(PSERVER.NLM), but it may  happen with
other utilities.  This is happens when a call to SPXSendSequencedPacket()
resets a session retransmit count which causes it to NOT abort the
connection if the connection is broken in one direction and maintained in
another.

INSTALLATION
Make a backup copy of each of these NLM's you are currently running. Copy
the new NLM's into the appropriate directories.

NACS INSTALLATION
In the AUTOEXEC.NCF file, replace LOAD SPXFIX1 with LOAD SPXFIX2. Replace
all older versions of PATCHMAN, STREAMS and SPXS with the NLM versions
which come with STRTLI.EXE Load SPXFSFIX and SPXLISFX after loading
SPXFIX2.

OTHER ISSUES
SPXFSFIX.NLM resolves a problem with lost connections never timing out
because of infinite transmit retries.

SPXLISFX.NLM resolves an extremely poor performance problem for some backup
software or any SPX program that is using a limited number of receive
buffers.  The new SPXLISFX.NLM and the new SPXS.NLM should be used
together.

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