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- Subject: Re: Vax to Ultrix delay over decnet
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.134403.1@ptavv.llnl.gov>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:44:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.170955.22876@macc.wisc.edu>, stevens@vms.macc.wisc.edu (PAul STevens - MACC - 2-9618) writes:
-
- > I have found that this happens when an ethernet packet is lost. The
- > decnet timeout value is 6 seconds. Can't be changed as far as I can
- > tell. Telnet's timeout is generally a few tens of milliseconds.
- > Decnet must have been manufactured in a clean-room with three nodes.
- > It works rather poorly on busy, noisy networks. I have fought these
- > problems for years and all I can ever get from DEC is advice to make
- > the ethernet work better. IP protocols are much more robust. I have
- > seen cases where over 80 percent of packets sere being lost (no---that
- > is not normal, even here!) and telnet users had no complaints. VAX
- > clusters simply crashed.
-
- This may be close, but the statement that it can't be adjusted is false! There
- are 2 executor parameters that control timeout, DELAY FACTOR and DELAY WEIGHT.
-
- The units date back to the days of slow serial links and can be modified to
- greatly improve performance. The estimated round trip time is in INTEGER
- SECONDS!!!
-
- I would drop DELAY FACTOR to about 16. This is a 1 second wait before
- retransmission. Since round trip delay on a Ethernet should be very small, you
- might also want to adjust DELAY WEIGHT which controls the recalculation of the
- delay.
-
- If you have some SLOW network links, such as 2400 baud async lines, this may
- not be a good idea as the delay factor is an exec parameter and applies to all
- circuits.
-
- R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Internet: koberman@llnl.gov (510) 422-6955
-
- Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
- and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
-