matthews@nethawk.uswest.com (John Matthews) (05/18/91)
56k Circuit
DISC-GW Nov Net 00BADBAD MILL-GW
0-------------------------------------------------------0
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| AGS+ 8.2(3) CGS 8.2(3) |
| Nov Net 30103FF Nov Net DE |
| Internal net #1 |
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+---- Workstation A Workstation B ----+
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+---- Server A (SFT2.15C) Server B (3.10)---+
We are having problems getting the workstation A to talk to Server B.
What we need to be able to do is to start up a fairly large application
from Server B and we have not been able to do this. I am positive that
all hardware is working fine. I can run all sorts of tests using the IP
protocols and there is no packet loss or errors on the line. I am new to
novell so as far as those protocols go, I can't be sure exactly what is
happening. All workstations on each network segment can talk to their
servers just fine. We can login to the servers in each direction and do
trivial things like DIR and SLIST. We can do a syscon from Workstation B
to Server A but not from Workstation A to Server B. The application that
we are trying to start constantly times out on the network. We have tried
so many different things and had these users down so much that now we
must put a temporary freeze on trying anything else until we can schedule
further downtime with these users. Is there anything that anyone can
suggest to try to resolve this problem. We are going to continue to try
and adjust the SPX timeout parameters to see if that helps, but if anyone
has seen simalar problems or knows how to fine tune novell over a 56k could
they please reply. We have actually tried making all network numbers match
and then putting the ciscos into bridging mode for non-routed protocols and
we got exactly the same behaviour. That last experiment we tried was to
connect both devices over our temporary long haul ethernet (FiberMux DS3
Magnum) and from what we could tell from our end everthing worked fine.
My guess now is that it has to have something to do with Novell Timeouts
going over a slow link. Can anyone shed some light on this?
John Matthews
matthews@uswat.uswest.com