WIN-TCP Problem on 3B2/500

[Thaddeus P. Floryan]

In article <1991Feb25.214152.27244 at prism.poly.edu> drubin at prism.UUCP (Dave Rubin) writes:
>We are running Wollongong's WIN-TCP Version 3.0.1 on a 3B2/500 which is
>running System V Release 3.2.1.
>
>We are experiencing several annoying problems, most which have been around
>since the earliest versions of WIN-TCP: unstable network connections that
>are closed for no reason, daemon's (mostly sendmail) going into bad states,
>not accepting connections or producing file-related errors, streams
>functions failing on various programs, system crashes due to Kernel MMU
>fault, NFS/OpenLook totally broken.  Lately we cannot even get sendmail 
>to work at all (although it does work on another almost identical 3B2/500).  
>Needless to say, the situation is unacceptable.
>[...]

Sigh.  Looks like not much has changed since their version 1.4 for the 3B1.
After some dorking-around with device driver loading, I have managed to find
a configuration that "works" ... at least my sytstems have been up since
November 1990 and I do a lot of 'net trafficking.

HOWEVER: I had to trash a bunch of the "stock" WIN/3B stuff and port over
parts of the networking software suite from 4.3BSD "Tahoe" (as found at
UUNET), and some other 3B1-aficianados have ported over some other stuff.

The WIN/3B sendmail and its daemon  is total garbage ... would fill up the
process table with defunct processes if one so much as sneezed in the same
room, so I tossed it out the window and over the fence to accompany other
bad software ... now I'm worrying the fence may collapse. :-)

A colleague is bringing up a new sendmail (ported from the BSD world) for
the 3B1 and this stuff "should" also work on the 3B2 (but I have NO way of
checking).  The 3B1 archive site is osu-cis (aka cheops.cis.ohio-state.edu)
where you can find some of this stuff as well as in comp.sources.3b1 soon.

If you have all the include files and socket library stuff, you may wish to
try some of the 3B1 ports.  No help possible with NFS, though, since that
feature "level" never made it into the 3B1 product.

Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]