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- From: mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec)
- Subject: Re: Microsoft Mail SMTP Gateway
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.052748.7699@timesink.chi.il.us>
- Organization: HAM Radio Station N9EUZ, Naperville, IL
- References: <1993Jan07.035947.15311@i88.isc.com> <1993Jan7.135641.1904@progress.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:27:48 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.135641.1904@progress.com> tucker@bedford.progress.COM writes:
- >In article <1993Jan07.035947.15311@i88.isc.com>, mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
- >|> If anyone has gone the MS-MAIL with SMTP gateway route, I'd be
- >|> interested in your experiences so far. Especially...
- >|>
- ... stuff deleted ...
- >
- >|> 4) Any problem with the gateway wedging up? If so, any workarounds?
- >
- >This is where I has the headaches. Initially I had 2 3Com 3c503s in the
- >gateway machine which the doc says is supported with either FTP's PCTCP
- >or Wollongong's TCP stack for the TCP/IP side. I tried both TCP setups
- >and the gateway machine kept hanging every so often, up to 5 or 6 times
- >a day. The third supported HW/SW cvonfig was Excelan board asnd their
- >software. This has been up for 6 months without a single hang. So I've quite
- >happy with it since then.
- >
- This would seem to indicate that the problem was in the FTP & Wollongong
- TCP stacks... since I believe Excelan runs their stack on an onboard
- processor instead of the main system CPU... 'Course it could be Microsoft's
- fault as they are known to do wanton things with MS-DOS systems programs.
- Anyone else?
-
- >Hope this helps, Kyle
-
- Yes, thanks Kyle and all who responded...
- - Mike
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