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- From: gpb@gpb-mac (greg berryman )
- Subject: Re: problems with ping/ftp/telnet
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.180200.29592@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:02:00 GMT
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- eikmeyer@lili7.uni-bielefeld.de writes:
- : I have problems with the commands ping, ftp and telnet under AUX 3.0.
- : When I invoke one of these commands, it takes several minutes before
- : the machine really does connect to another machine, This is so regardless
- : of whether I use a symbolic name or a numeric ip address. With the help
- : of a sniffer I could see that name server access is as fast as one could
- : expect. The time is spent after the command knows the numeric ip address.
- : This is my first contact to AUX, but on other UNIX machines all commands
- : react spontaneously when you use a numeric ip address.
- :
-
- The usual cause for this problem is running out of memory buffers for
- networking. Do a netstat -m. You should not have non-zero results on
- request for memory delayed/denied. The fix is to run kconfig, increase
- NMBUFS to something like 1000 or 1500. Then just reboot.
-
- Have fun!
-
- Greg.
-
-
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