larry@belch.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Foard) (10/08/90)
So far I have had very good luck with esix but am having one very strange problem. I have my machine setup with TCP/IP but no ethernet card (yet). I am using it for communications between a database server and a number of clients, this in it self has worked with (surprising) few problems except: If I boot the machine, then come back several hours later and start the server it gets to the point where it should be accepting connections and just sits there. When I attempt to run a client process or even use telnet to connect they just sit there trying to make a connection. I have also noticed that when this happens that the talkd and rwhod process have gone into infinite loops and are running up CPU time (talk also freezes if you try to run it). The only thing that seems to repair the problem is to reboot the machine. Is it possible that TCP/IP requires an ethernet card to work even if it is not used?