nelson@SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson) (11/16/90)
Can anyone give me some hints as solve my problem with Xenix <--> SunOS NONinteroperability? I can always telnet between the two hosts, but when I try to ftp between them, I get big troubles. The transfer never gets more than 100 KB through. BUT, when I use KA9Q as a midpoint (do SunOS to KA9Q to Xenix), it works just fine. So clearly both systems are capable of transferring tens of megabytes over a single TCP connection. They just can't talk to anyone else. Now, I would look at the packets, but trpt says "tcp_debx=0", and the manual claims this is an "other message which should be self explanatory." Ha, programmers are such wags. The really strange part is that the problems aren't seen when transferring data *from* the Xenix system, it's when you try to transfer data *to* the Xenix system. There, I just went away and pushed 1.5 MB from the Xenix to the SunOS, and I can't even get 40 KB from the SunOS to the Xenix. Can someone please tell me what to look at? Oh, and please send me mail, as I normally read this group via news, and news is what's NOT running on the Xenix system. All the news junkies at Clarkson are on my back about it...