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- From: dragon@NSCVAX.PRINCETON.EDU (Mighty Firebreather)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: Vax to Ultrix delay over decnet
- Message-ID: <0095DE66.5D092A80.6489@nscvax.princeton.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 14:11:15 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Mark Randall <mrandall@av8r.uucp> writes:
- >
- > It seems like I've picked everyone's brains for terminals, so
- >now let's give DECnet a try...
- >
- > We have a 3800 (vax/vms 5.5-1) and a 5400 (risc/ultrix 4.2A)
- >connected via Thickwire E-net through a DELNI. We've got DECnet set
- >up, although I'm a real beginner to networks and NCP (where's that
- >manual...?). Everything seems ok but for one problem.
- > When we dlogin from ultrix to vms, all works well. Going the
- >other way, vms to ultrix (via SET HOST), we experience really long
- >delays when text is printed to the screen. Once logged in, I can type
- >normally and text will be displayed until it just STOPS for no
- >apparent reason! The pause occurs on average for 7-9 seconds, and then
- >the text resumes printing, as if nothing had happened. There is no
- >such pause going the other way.
- > This one's really got me baffled, folks. Anyone have an idea?
- >I don't even know which system has the problem, but it looks like a
- >quota is set too low somewhere...
- >
- > Mark
- >
-
- I've observed this same phenomenon here at Princeton. Many systems
- and terminal servers have exhibited the problem. I'm reasonably certain
- that the problem is due to network loading, and specifically to stations
- using DEC protocols. I've seen the problem behind a LANBridge 100 so that
- I suspect broadcast and/or multicast packets as the culprits.
-
- Some time ago, I helped set up a small network consisting of a VAX
- Station 3100, three VT1200s and a VT1300. It worked well using DECnet and
- LAT. After it was connected to the University-wide network it still worked
- well internally. We were able to use TCP/IP to communicate with the world
- at large. DECnet and LAT, however, did not work. We could not see or be
- seen by any other DECnet node on campus. I consulted the University
- networking people who informed me that they had been filtering DEC
- protocols in that particular segment of the network. They turned the DEC
- protocols on and I could suddenly reach the rest of the campus.
- Performance went down the sewer!!
-
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- * Here, there be dragons! *
- * dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu *
- * *
- * Richard B. Gilbert *
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