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- From: pjs@cais.com (Paul Sadlik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: All WebBrowsers Locking Up AmiTCP >>HELP?!<<
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 14:17:07 GMT
- Organization: Capital Area Internet Service info@cais.com 703-448-4470
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- References: <2414.304T44T681@cais.com>
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- Hi folks,
-
- I've been battling with these problems for a couple of weeks now and they
- driving me up the wall... :-(!
-
- I've been running AMosaic (v2.0b3) for months with just the occassional
- lock-up or "unable to connect to remote host" here and there. Around the
- beginning of December AMosaic seemed to start having problems connecting to
- anything. But more than that, it would cause the entire stack to stop
- working...
-
- Specifically, AMosaic starts up as usual and reads my local HTML page. As
- soon as I try to connect to any host, it says that it is sending it's
- request to the remote host. At that point a number of things happen to my
- TCP/IP setup:
-
- 1] After a while, AMosaic will come back and say that it is unable to connect
- to that host. Any other requests will do the same. Quitting AMosaic seems
- to work fine. I've got to thinking that the problem may be occurring when
- the browser attempts to download the page graphics.
-
- 2] Trying IBrowse and AWeb, and while they have been more buggy in general,
- both will start and get to a first site and THEN they flake out.
-
- 3] More critically, AmiTCP seems to flake out. Specifically, it fails to
- communicate with anything on the InterNet. All clients cannot find any
- things on the net - this includes ping, napsaterm, thor, ncftp, etc.
-
- 4] Ping begins to fail, just as soon as Amosaic starts making trouble,
- returning the following:
-
- ping: sendto: No buffer space available
- ping: wrote cais.com 64 chars, ret=-1
-
- This is my prime method of checking the connection/system to see when
- the failure occurs, a steady stream of successful ping will start
- returning the above lines when the browsers fail.
-
- 5] The modem stays connected. (BTW, I'm running PPP 1.30 registered)
-
- 6] Running the "StopNet" script or turning the modem power off frequently
- causes my Amiga to lock-up after this problem starts.
-
- I am at a loss to figure out what to do. I have downloaded THOUSANDS of
- messages with Thor and Megabytes of data with ALynx with no problems.
-
- In attempting to solve this problem, I have...
-
- 1] Removed almost all the datatypes on my system (all but the IFF, ILBM,
- AU, ZGIF & JPEG datatypes) and reinstalled those which I am still using.
-
- 2] Removed the startup items of Envoy in case they are conflicting. WHY???
-
- 3] Removed all the old Mosaic prefs/hotlist/config files (except mime &
- mailcap) in case they're causing the problem.
-
- 4] I have reisnstalled AMosaic v2.0b3 and re-installed the old v2.0b1, to no
- avail.
-
- 5] I have installed a loaned copy of AmiTCP 4.2 to see if that made a
- difference vs. the 4.0demo I was using.
-
- 6] I have removed a slew of commodities/startup patches (MCP, 040 stuff,
- WB patches) with no improvements.
-
- 7] Have been running Enforcer and SegTracker and the only problems there
- (like an Enforcer hit when AMosaic tries to go to a home page file that
- isnt there) have nothing to do with locking up AmiTCP.
-
- 8] I've reinstalled PPP 1.30 from my registration disk.
-
- 9] I've gone through all the configuration variables for AMosaic (I could
- find) and reset them to default or basic settings.
-
- I've been guessing that AMosaic/IBrowse/AWeb are doing something which is
- causing AmiTCP to flake out. I'd really appreciate it if anyone can tell
- me what might be the problem!
-
- MANY Thanks in advance,
-
- Paul
-
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- Paul Jan Sadlik >Only Amiga<
- Architect Life's too short to use a PC
- McLean, Virginia, USA pjs@cais.com
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