[comp.sys.mac.comm] Problem with MacTCP

kevin@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Kevin Mitchell) (11/09/90)

I have a problem when running MacTCP v1.0.  I start up an application
such as NCSA Telnet and everything works OK initially (I am connected
to an ethernet via a Kinetics box).  After a (random) period of time the
network connection hangs.  I can exit from Telnet but when I look at
the memory utilization I find that the system 'process' has grabbed
all the available memory (4 Meg) and the machine crashes.  A similar thing
happens when running Eudora.  After a while the program complains that
it can't connect to the mail machine, asks if I want to keep trying
and when I say no the system hangs.  It therefore looks like it's a
problem with my installation of the TCP software rather than the
applications.  I am running 6.0.5 and have tried rebuilding the system and TCP
software but it still fails :-(  I have removed all the non-essential inits and 
cdevs and the symptoms persist. It also fails on 6.0.7.

Any help, comments would be appreciated.  My apologies in advance if this
problem has already been discussed on the net .... :-)
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resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (11/10/90)

kevin@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Kevin Mitchell) writes:

>I have a problem when running MacTCP v1.0.
                                      ^^^^
MacTCP 1.0.1 has been out for a while. It fixes a segment size problem
that may be causing this behavior. I would get it.

pr
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