david@csource.OZ.AU (david nugent) (06/05/90)
Does anyone have a solution to the following problem? You can help particularly if you've used ISC's tcp-ip... After configuring the Unix kernel to accept 32 telnet sessions, it seems as though we are still unable to raise more than 17 sessions. The software is set up as follows: . Using GARP on a Novell 2.15 server, which acts as a bridge to the Unix system; workstations on the Novell side use a modified version of NSCA telnet and IPXIP to access to Unix host. We are assured by the distributors of GARP (who are Micronetworks in Sydney, Australia) that GARP is currently working on a number of sites with a variety of hosts with much more than 17 sessions - it's internal limit is 128 workstations, allowing multiple sessions per workstation. . ISC 386/ix running on a 33MHZ 386 box with 16meg of RAM, the streams package configured up to maximum (as are many other packages). Specific modifications to the kernel were made as follows: . Increasing the number of pty and ptx sessions in the following files: /etc/conf/cf.d/mdevice /etc/conf/sdevice.d/pty & ptx . Modifying various parameters in /etc/conf/tmp/config.h, related to pty and ptx devices. . Entering device names in /etc/conf/node.d/pty and ptx, and using mknod to create those devices in /dev (specifically, the devices were pttyq0 - pttyqf and ttypq0 - ttypqf) . Editing /etc/conf/pack.d/pty/space.d, changing the #define NPTY up from 16 to 32. . Using kconfig to modify the NUMTIM tuneable paraneter to 32. According to ISC's technical bulletins and their Australian distributor, it seems that we've done everything required to enable 32 sessions. The above modifications managed to increase the number of possible telnet sessions from 16 to 17, but no more. The last attempt at logging on for the 18th session results in that session 'hanging' and eventually timing out on the telnet side. I can't help get the feeling that I'm missing one or two small elements to complete the modifications to the kernel. Looking through every file possible under /etc/conf didn't seem to help much either, so any extra information anyone might offer is indeed welcome. david
gchamber@nfsun.UUCP (Glenn Chambers) (06/05/90)
In article <4@csource.OZ.AU> david@csource.OZ.AU (david nugent) writes: > to the Unix system; workstations on the Novell side use a > modified version of NSCA telnet and IPXIP to access to Unix ^^^^^ Can anyone tell me were I can get this package? Is it a commercial item, or part of the latest PC-IP release, or ...? Please E-mail answers and requests for summary. If there are more than epsilon of the latter, I will post a summary. Thanks. Glenn. ------- Glenn Chambers (gchamber@nfsun.UUCP; ...!uunet!nfsun!gchamber) .sig files are for people with small egos. I don't have that problem!