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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: problems with ping/ftp/telnet
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- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <EIKMEYER.93Jan5122457@lili7.uni-bielefeld.de>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:04:55 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.
-
- I would guess (and hopefully be pretty dang close :) that the problem
- is not enuff network buffers (NMBUFS)...
-
- Look at kconfig(1m) to see how to adjust this value... Look at 'netstat -m'
- to see how many you are using...
- --
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