pjs269@tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt) (10/10/89)
We are running SR9.7 and have been having a problem with the remote login to another computer. The ring has 16 nodes using a single gateway to ethernet. The problem is that occasionally the Apollo will hang for many seconds. The remote computer times the Apollo out and disconnects. We are running with large size vt100s (>24x80). My theory is that the Apollo software on Ethernet takes too long to process collisions on the network. This is because of the following evidence: 1) The gateway node is not being used so it is not a problem with the gateway being overloaded. 2) We had some faulty hardware on the network that produced bad packets. The Apollo software would halt for minutes at a time, but would seem to recover several minutes after the packets were gone. If anyone can add support or disprove this theory, I would appreciate the input.
manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) (10/12/89)
My experiments in using vt100 with rlogin were quite unsuccessful. It
would quite repeatedly hang just after I exited from GNU Emacs on the
remote system (I'm on a 3500 running SR 10.1, and was rlogging in to
various Suns running SunOS 4.0).
vt100's bugs have been loudly complained about here. For the record, the
only way I have managed to use it without problems is via the command
vt100 -std telnet <host>
(I thought that I could at least have a `big VT-100', but non-standard
screen sizes seem to elicit scrolling problems).
With any luck, the vt100 command in 10.2 should be a bit more
trustworthy.
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oj@apollo.HP.COM (Ellis Oliver Jones) (10/14/89)
In article <713@tijc02.UUCP> pjs269@tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt) writes: >We are running SR9.7 and have been having a problem with the >remote login to another computer. The ring has 16 nodes using >a single gateway to ethernet. The problem is that occasionally >the Apollo will hang for many seconds. The remote computer >times the Apollo out and disconnects. This is a good example of a problem that should definitely be reported via an APR to customer service. If you haven't done so, your path-of-least-resistance to an Apollo-provided solution is definitely through that channel. If you have reported it but not received an answer, call them and follow up. /oj