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- In article <2mnrge$4s0@edwin.bga.com>, reaper@bga.com (Keath Milligan) says:
- >
- >
- >I managed to locate the LAN Workplace / Workgroup patches LWP168.EXE and
- >LWP41N.EXE on ftp.novell.com (under somethihhing like epub/netwire/novlib).
- >
- >I've downloaded these files and followed the installation instructions and
- >guess what? Nothing happened. Lan WorkPalce still operates fine, but
- >Winsock apps are still dead in the water.
- You need to use 168 without the 41N patches. You will then have
- a working WinSock (assuming you started with LWP 40 or 41).
- Since you can't use the 41N patches, you will be unable to handle
- large TCP/IP packets. This shows up primarily when FTPing to a DEC
- alpha, but other OS's are starting to use large (>4K) packets also.
-
- If your problem is specific to WWW browsers (Mosaic or Cello) increase
- the sockets (UDP in particular) in your PROTOCOL TCP section to at
- least 8. With this setup I've got both Mosaic and Cello working. I'm
- less successful with LAN WorkGroup, but even here Mosaic should get
- it's home page. You may want to try something simpler than WWW to test
- WinSock.
- From news@bigblue.oit.unc.edu Wed Mar 23 16:31:49 1994
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- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 14:01:21
- From: GREG_KAISEN@quickmail.cis.yale.edu (Greg Kaisen)
- Message-Id: <GREG_KAISEN.13.000E062C@QM.YALE.EDU>
- Organization: Yale University
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- References: <Cn4Ju5.G64@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Subject: Re: ODI, NW 3.12, packet drivers ??
-
- John,
-
- I have exactly the same setup, and exactly the same problem. Touble is, I've
- seen this work on some machines, I can't for the life of me figure out why it
- won't work on my machine. Would appreciate an exchange of troubleshooting
- hints.
-
- ----Sorry Winsock list, my mailer does not allow direct replies--------------
-
-
- In article <Cn4Ju5.G64@acsu.buffalo.edu> jschwei@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (John E.
- Schweigel) writes:>From: jschwei@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (John E. Schweigel)
- >Subject: ODI, NW 3.12, packet drivers ??
- >Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 15:46:00 GMT
-
- >We are using Novell 3.1x on our network.
- >We are looking into the possibility of switching from using
- >packet drivers to ODI. We used the Novell 3.12 DOS workstation
- >install to effect the change. This put us to using the NW4
- >drivers and the VLM setup. All went great once we deduced
- >where everything was supposed to go with a shared network
- >windows setup. All did not go well when we tried to use our
- >tcp services - Hgopher, qvt, WinTrump, Mosaic. We put the
- >ODIPKT (2.1) shim in the 'startnet.bat' after the mlid
- >(3c503.com) with the vector of 126(7e), we ran the Trumpet
- >Winsock (A18) which seemed to see the shim, and then ran
- >Windows and the tcp apps. Tried the latter actually - no
- >matter what changes in configuration I made, the gethostbyname
- >was never able to be resolved; in other words, the app was
- >never able to figure out what 'gopher.nih.gov' or the http
- >was or find the news server on campus. They either never
- >found or couldn't talk to the name servers. These are apps
- >that run fine in a straight packet install and we would like
- >to formally keep them, IF we can get them to function in the
- >ODI/NW4/VLM scheme of things.
-
- >Are the tcp apps, above, packet driver specific? My
- >understanding was that the Winsock approach insulated us from
- >the lower levels. Apps talk to winsock; winsock talks tcp.
- >Is there a way with the NW4/VLM approach
- >to specify the Link Support parameters like 'Buffers 6 1600'
- >that Dan Lanciana mentions in the ODIPKT docs. Do you just
- >stuff them into the net.cfg? Is there an
- >'ODI Winsock' that will work?
-
- >BOTTOM LINE - can the tcp apps I mentioned work with ODI,
- > NW4/VLM?????????
-
- >Jack Schweigel 231 CFS, Buffalo NY 14214
- >SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine Office of Medical Computing
- >jschweig@ubmedb.buffalo.edu 716-829-2928 (fax ...3395)
-
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