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- From: pdh@netcom.com (Phil Howard )
- Subject: Xstation 120: need reboot to reconnect to font server
- Message-ID: <ay4mb5f.pdh@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 17:10:27 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Can anyone tell me why it is that the Xstation 120 firmware is not smart
- enough to reestablish a connection to the font server after the connection
- is lost and a new font is needed?
-
- I am currently booting Release 112591 on Version 1.5 roms. No previous
- release of the server code has reconnected either.
-
- There are a couple of possible explanations to this. One is that the
- network connection is lost due to a "keep alive" feature being active
- (which to those know what it does know it should be relabled as
- "kill me as soon as you can"). Another possibility is that the server
- or the machine the server was running on is rebooted.
-
- I leave the terminal for a while (such as overnight) then return and it
- can't find any new fonts. Then after an immediate reboot it has no trouble
- finding any fonts, so I know that the server is up and reachable by that
- time so I know it didn't really try to reconnect.
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