JMWOBUS@SUVM.BITNET ("John M. Wobus") (06/15/89)
This is a followup to my previous message about P4200s having trouble picking up routing updates that are being broadcast on an Ethernet. Additional help from Proteon helped us discover that the problem was probably lack of memory: the gateways in question had several interfaces & ran DECNet and had only 1/2 meg: commands to display the buffer-pool count revealed a shockingly small number. Our upgrade to the newer processor also gave us an additional 1/2 meg which may have helped us as much as the additional processor speed. This additional know-how has induced us to adjust the buffer-size down to the minimal size that we really need and will certainly help us plan future upgrades more rationally. Thus much of our problem was our own ignorance, though it would behoove Proteon to diagnose such problems more efficiently, perhaps even before a customer installs a gateway in such a configuration. John Wobus Computing & Network Services