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- >> 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.
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- >> 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.
- >>
- You know..I hate to interject a technical not or two in the flame-fest but
- your problem description quite accurately describes a TCP stack which is
- either resource starved or is going to a poorly designed or buggy TCP
- back-off algorithm. Of course you could be fighting a poorly designed
- silly-window avoidance algorithm also, but thats unlikely.
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- Your problem is occuring either
- * because all available resources (buffers) in the system are
- consumed by another session, an improperly sized send-side
- TCP window or a slew of incoming data that hasn't been processed
- by an app.
- * your TCP loses a packet (bad checksum, dropped packet, whatever),
- the sender waits for a period of time, retransmits. For some
- reason (improper buffer scavenging at a guess) your side doesn't
- receive the resend; the sender waits longer before resending and
- away you go.
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- I would have a look at the network traffic using a Lanwatch,Sniffer,
- Lanalyser or the tool of choice.
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- Shareware and freeware are good things; but at some point you probably
- want a commercially designed and supported IP stack. Given your
- way with criticism over the years(:-) :-)) perhaps I should recommend
- one of our competitors. On the other hand perhaps you ought to try ours
- and complain about it until it meets your needs. That certainly would
- force us to up the bar a bit :-).
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- Larry Backman
- FTP Software
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