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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: "Packet received for invalid port" msg in WinQVT/Net
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- References: <1992Aug7.173635.29698@tamsun.tamu.edu> <1992Aug10.150306.254@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> <martin.713581093@zen>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 23:32:13 GMT
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- In article <martin.713581093@zen| martin@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Martin Caden) writes:
- |In article <1992Aug7.173635.29698@tamsun.tamu.edu|, cmenzel@tamsun.tamu.edu
- |(Christopher P Menzel) writes:
- || WinQVT/Net works great on my system, but the console frequently fills
- || up with the message "Packet received for invalid port -- reset sent"
- || without there being any obvious (to me) event to trigger it. Can any
- || TCP/IP gurus out there explain this?
- |
- |mmmm, this can happen if there's some confusion about what IP number your PC
- |is using. ie. if a unix box somewhere thinks that your physical ethernet
- |address matches to some IP number that is not the same as the one you have
- |configured WinQVTnet for. When packets arrive at the correct ethernet card but
- |are labelled with an IP number that your software does not expect then you can
- |get the error message mentioned above.
-
- The way I've heard this explained is that something is trying to talk
- to a "port" that doesn't exist. Apparently the reason you can, for in-
- stance, have several telnet sessions AND an FTP session going at the
- same time is that whatever you have a session with is talking to a "port".
- Now suppose you kill a session in some abnormal way (or say the FTP
- server abends) and the machine at the other end doesn't realize this.
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