edward@csvaxa.UUCP (Edward Wilkinson) (01/29/88)
Having experienced a great deal of frustration with the CMU TCP/IP software, I must retract some of my recent hasty critisism of the package. The result however was that I received a piece of information from Richard Sharpe in Australia. Having acted on his information it would appear that some of the problems we were having between Ultrix and CMU, and Ultrix and Prime FTP seem to have gone. Apparently not all TCP/IP implementations support 'trailers', CMU doesn't and we believe that the PRIME implementation doesn't either. The Ultrix 2.0 implementation enables trailers by default. This crashes the other two implementations quite frequently. By turning off trailers '/etc/ifconfig ... ... -trailers' we now seem to be able to get the various versions to talk to each other without crashing. I hope this information will be of assistance to any others that have been having similiar problems. -- CSNET/ACSnet/Internet: G.Eustace@massey.ac.nz New Zealand = GMT+12