Salvatore Saieva <SLVQC@CUNYVM> (03/20/90)
I've been using NCSA FTP between PC's on our thin wire ethernet LAN flawlessly. However, things are not so good using Telnet or FTP to our VAX/VMS system. Sometimes NCSA Telnet and FTP can initiate a connection, sometimes it can't. When a connection to the VAX is negotiated, it is unreliable, slow, and choppy; records are received in small pieces with long delays between the separate pieces and what I type is also echoed in the same ``choppy'' manner. On the PC side I'm using the NE1000 and WD8003E packet drivers from the Clarkson driver collection for the appropriate ethernet cards. We're also running Novell Advanced Netware V2.15 over the thin wire ethernet (if it matters) and I never have the Clarkson drivers and the Netware drivers loaded at the same time. I have experimented with the various parameters in the config.tel file but I haven't seen any improvements. On the VAX side (an 8600 and a 785) we're running Wollongong TCP/IP and FTP software. The thin wire ethernet is connected to the VAX's ethernet through a Delni box. Does anyone have any clues as to why this isn't working? I've been trying to get this working for some time now but I haven't had too much luck going to our VAX's. Are there special settings for the parameters in the config.tel file? A special setup on the VMS side? Is it even feasible given our environment and connections? Any information would be very appreciated. Salvatore Saieva Queens College, N.Y. Academic Computer Center