[net.unix-wizards] Rdump problems

ruth@wcwvax.UUCP (Ruth Moulton) (03/25/86)

some weeks ago Barry Shien posted an article describing problems with
rdump getting 'connection lost' message during a longish dump to the
VAX/750.

The MG-1 has the same problem, but it happens between MGs as well so
I suspect it is not the vax as such but it is 4.2. 
Barry asked for fixes, I haven't seen
any go by but I often miss bits of news - if there are any fixes
could someone please mail me or repost them 

I have started to look at the problem, and so far have only got as
far as determining that connection is dropped because of retransmission
time out..

Thanks in advance.

Ruth Moulton   

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bzs%bostonu.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa (03/29/86)

[re: problem I was having with losing connections during an rdump,
what was the fix, same problem on MG-1]

Bad news. It was a bug in the SUN/3.0 -PILOT- ethernet driver which
has been fixed in the real 3.0 release. Probably not applicable to
an MG-1 tho maybe worth a note that it could be way down there,
happy hunting, sorry.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

Posted because if one had a glimmer of hope, more might, may as well
shatter all those dreams at once :-) [what's an mg-1?]