delaney@XN.LL.MIT.EDU ("John R. Delaney") (12/14/89)
I have just brought up 2 of our 4 Explorer Is under Release 6.0 and have noticed an annoying tendency for CHAOS connections between hosts to go bad (and be hard to reset). We did not have problems (at least not this frequently) with Release 4.1. Does this sound familiar to anyone? If so, what is the fix? A possible culprit in this case would be the ~20 SUNs also on the network. They have been know to interfere with communications among the ~10 Symbolics machines on the network. Does THAT sound familiar? Puzzled in Lexington
jwz@teak.berkeley.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (12/15/89)
In article <2838569876-5698058@NESTOR> John R. Delaney writes: > > A possible culprit in this case would be the ~20 SUNs also on the > network. They have been know to interfere with communications among the > ~10 Symbolics machines on the network. Does THAT sound familiar? Ok, here's a good one. This is a very funny joke. Now what I'm going to do here is, I'm going to tell you the punch line to this very funny joke, and you're going to have to fill in the rest for yourself. Ready? "It had only two megs of core, AND IT PAGED OVER THE NET!!" Bwaa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Well I thought it was really funny. After it stopped being true, that is. But seriously, diskless suns cause packet storms you wouldn't believe. Our network was straight from hell until we got local swap space for all of our suns. (We were running Lucid Lisp and InterLeaf.) -- Jamie