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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: I-Card/1200/AmiTCP problem
- References: <2137cc$113b28.182@news.hampshire.edu> <dave.0aue@ccom.co.nz>
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- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 96 12:04:24 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <dave.0aue@ccom.co.nz> dave@ccom.co.nz (David Eaves) writes:
- > In article <2137cc$113b28.182@news.hampshire.edu> ejpF95@hamp.hampshire.edu (Pinkey) writes:
- > > The I-Card freezes up my Amiga totally unprovoked...at the most random
- > > times. I have narrowed the problem down to the sana-II driver. I have
- > > used AmiTCP with SLIP, CSLIP, and PPP and have never had this problem.
- > > So I figured out that the problem resides in the SANA-II driver.
- >
- > We have an ICard that freezes A1200's randomly also. We are using Envoy
- > rather than TCP/IP, so it looks like it is down to either the ICard
- > driver, or a hardware problem with the ICard/A1200's. I have tried a
- > number of A1200's (5 or 6), including some brand new ones from Amiga
- > Technologies, and all have hung randomly at some point with the ICard
- > active.
-
- We've just recently been able to identify _a_ problem, and do not yet
- have a solution. I really can't say more than that, other than that we
- are working on it. (And it's taking rather valuable time away from our
- I-Net 225 release <sigh>.)
-
- > > I called Interworks technical support and the person told me that they
- > > would not test their product under AmiTCP because "Its (AmiTCP) too
- > > flakey)." This really frustrated me because I have done my research on
- >
- > We see the exact same problem as you while running Envoy, so I don't
- > believe it is AmiTCP.
-
- At this time, I would tend to agree. Amazingly enough though, the problem
- does not occur with ENLAN-DFS, nor is it easy to provoke under I-Net 225.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
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