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- In article <ashok.469.2D680B62@biochemistry.cwru.edu>,
- Ashok Aiyar <ashok@biochemistry.cwru.edu> wrote:
- >In article <2k90jk$1dm@Mercury.mcs.com> karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >
- >>Right now there is, IMHO, NO stable Shareware/Freeware Windows selection
- >>available with internal communications and dial scripting capability.
- >
- >>And, until there is something I can test and prove out to be stable, I will
- >>continue to make this known.
- >
- >That statement is fine as long as you qualify it to state that the
- >Trumpet Winsock is unstable on your test system.
-
- It is unstable on, at least:
- 1) My IBM/Leopard DX/60 that runs everything else.
- 2) My generic no-name 486DX/33 clone. Both with 8MB RAM, 16550s, etc.
- 3) At least three customers systems here. All common Windows machines
- with nothing special about any of them. One of those customers
- says he is stable on A17. I have one machine which is, and one
- which is not.
-
- My problem, again, isn't with actual crashes. It is with lost connections
- that "die" for long periods of time, with long being defined as 1 sec < x <
- 10 minutes. Note that ANOTHER session continues just fine. That is, I can
- have a Telnet hang, and open a second one -- which may or may not hang. The
- first hung one wille eventually pick back up. The second one will eventually
- hang up too, but it will also eventually start working again. While either
- or both of these are hung I can open an FTP, and that will also work --
- and all three apps will then run at some point. But they will also all
- show the "pause" problem eventually, with QVT telnets being hit the worst.
-
- The same use pattern on a MAC with InterSLIP or MAC/PPP operates perfectly.
-
- This is pretty clearly a stack and/or SLIP driver problem.
-
- > I haven't had the
- >same experience on a number of different systems, but in the event
- >that you would like to code something better, I offer myself as a
- >beta-tester.
-
- I've already had contact from one vendor who has a reasonably-priced
- solution.
-
- Expect a "comparison of the internal IP stacks" posting from me soon.
-
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