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- Path: sparky!dsndata!backbone!crcnis1.unl.edu!price
- From: price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP Package
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:16:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Message-ID: <1k6u32INNds8@crcnis1.unl.edu>
- References: <A53880@AC3.maus.de>
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- Marc_Van-Woerkom@ac3.maus.de (Marc Van-Woerkom) writes:
-
- >Hello!
-
- >We plan to connect a PC to our ethernet, which has several UNIX Workstations
- >attached (SGI Iris, probably IBM RS6000 in the near future) to it.
-
- >I think OS/2 is the proper operating system, but I need some info about
- >the TCP/IP package for OS/2. (X-windows? NFS? 3270 emulation?)
-
- I'm using IBM's TCP/IP 1.2.1 for OS/2 to write this response (logged into a
- sparc via telnet). FTP is a PM app, and works well; X-win works OK to display
- things, tn3270 works very well, NFS works OK, send-mail and nameserver stuff is
- somewhat unreliable due, I think, to our particular local Token ring -
- eithernet - gateway mix. Our primary nameserver is on an ethernet across a
- gateway, and the link across that from the token ring is unreliable. This is a
- general problem, not necessarily a TCP/IP problem, as when I am logged into
- another machine in Lincoln, NE (I work in Omaha, NE - 50 miles away) and try to
- get to machines across that gateway, I often have problems with hung
- connections or failures to connect.
-
- The only real problem is that after a few hours, all of my connections seem to
- get dropped and I have to reboot (to restart all of the TCP/IP stuff). I think
- I could just rerun the starttcp.cmd batch file after killing all of the TCP/IP
- daemons, but I've never bothered. The time period before dropped connections
- was increased by quite a bit with the last CSD, but this seems to be a kludge
- until they find out what is really causing the problem. Things get dropped
- after 3-4 hours.
- --
- chad
- price@helios.unl.edu
- cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-