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- From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: SLIP troubles
- Message-ID: <930111142453.21000114@TGV.COM>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 14:24:53 PST
- Organization: Info-Multinet<==>Vmsnet.Networks.Tcp-Ip.Multinet Gateway
- X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
- Lines: 49
-
- > We are running MultiNet over SLIP (we'd use ethernet if we had
- > it, but...), and are having problems with data transfer:
-
- > With ftp, small files transfer okay, but anything larger than ~20K
- > fails - it transfers the first few block, then freezes up and
- > eventually times out:
-
- > DB1.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU>put year93.lis year93_b.lis
- > <ASCII transfer started for DISK$USER10:[RPSS]YEAR93_B.LIS;
- > (...several minutes elapse here...)
- > net write: %MULTINET-F-ECONNCLOSED, Connection closed
- > [Aborting data transfer]
- > <File transfer completed ok
-
- > Mail (PMDF) seems to have similar problems - small messages transfer
- > okay, but larger ones fail:
-
- > $ run pmdf_root:[exe]mtcp_master
-
- > Starting delivery of
- > PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.MTCP_LOCAL]992DC0EE1F1F400B5E.00;1
-
- > 11-JAN-93 00:52:31: SMTP routine failure on file:
- > PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.MTCP_LOCAL]992DC0EE1F1F400B5E.00;1
- > Starting delivery of
- > PMDF_ROOT:[QUEUE.MTCP_LOCAL]992DF206C93F400B5E.00;1
- > os_smtp_open: Looking up MX records for keynes.heinz.cmu.edu
- > rcode = 0, ancount=0
- > os_smtp_open: Connecting to keynes.heinz.cmu.edu
- > os_smtp_write: TCP write failed;
- > os_smtp_write: TCP write failed;
- > os_smtp_write: TCP write failed;
- > os_smtp_write: TCP write failed;
- > (...etc...)
-
- > Telnet mostly works, but is quite slow, and occasionally disconnects.
-
- > We are running VMS 5.5-1, MultiNet 3.0-G, PMDF 3.1 on a MacroVAX-II
- > (which we would upgrade if we could :-).
-
- > Does anyone have any idea what is happening, or what I should look
- > for?
-
- > Any leads would be much appreciated.
-
- What kind of modems are you running? It sounds like the SLIP line
- is losing long packets.
-
- Ken
-