home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!agate!ucbvax!VMSFE.ULCC.AC.UK!CZIWKGA
- From: CZIWKGA@VMSFE.ULCC.AC.UK ("Kevin Ashley, Systems Development, ULCC")
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: re: problem making an outbound x29 call
- Message-ID: <9211170904.AA04874@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:44:00 GMT
- Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
- Organization: The Internet
- Lines: 50
-
- Anders (Rolff ?) wrote a few days ago in a message which had no mail
- address about a problem he was having with x29 calls.
-
- He wrote:
-
- >I think I have tracked down the problem to facility negotiation. If I make
- >an x29 call with $ set host/x <addr> I get the following accounting
- >info on the remote node:
- >
- >Calling facilities:
- > 42 07 07
- >
- >Accept facilities:
- > 42 07 07
- >
- >But, if I use psi$x29_outgoing_c the call fails with Virtual call cleared
- >and the accounting info on the remote node looks like this:
- >Calling facilities:
- > 42 07 07
- >
- >Accept facilities:
- >
- >
- >It doesn't seem like the remote node is accepting the facilities.
- >
-
- No, anders, this just means that the remote node didn't accept the call.
- If there isn't a call accept, then there aren't any accept facilities for
- psi accounting to record. In any event, since the calling facilities you
- showed in both these calls are the same, this would not make sense. What
- would be more useful would be to show the other information that
- PSI accounting shows, ESPECIALLY anything that differs between the
- call that works and the call that fails. Most useful of all would be
- the second page of output from PSI accounting showing the clearing
- cause and diagnostic fields, and stuff like the protocol ID.
-
- There are 1001 reasons why calls like this can fail, including security
- facilities on the remote node that are fussy about exactly how incoming
- calls are set up. At least you have managed to demonstrate that the
- calls are reaching the remote node, and not getting bounced somewhere
- else in the network, and this is helpful.
-
- But, if you show us the rest of the PSI accounting info from the remote end,
- someone might be able to do more than hazard a guess as to why it failed.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Kevin Ashley K.Ashley@Ulcc.ac.uk
- Systems Development Group Manager ...ukc!ncdlab!K.Ashley
- University of London Computer Centre.
-
-