WIN-TCP Problem on 3B2/500
Richard Meesters
ram at attcan.UUCP
Fri Mar 15 00:09:35 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb27.220337.29559 at cbnewsj.att.com>, duckie at cbnewsj.att.com (john.c.mc millan) writes:
> - TCP under WIN/3Br3.2 seems to be argumentative with
> earlier releases: rumor has it that as a result
> of fixing a long-term bug regarding window-sizing,
> negotiation-arguments occasionally erupt between
> 3.2 systems and earlier ones. I've seen 99% of
> system CPU disappear for 30 minutes running.
>
> It's possible the now-available version has
> employed some strategy to counter this, but I'd
> confirm that, or convert all your 3B2's AND 386's
> at one time! We did convert, and we're quite
> enthusiastic about the result.
>
I was wondering if the version you were running was the original version I
obtained from the States. But this confirms it. The release version of
WIN TCP 3.2 has a switch in /etc/master.d/tcp caled 42COMPAT (or COMPAT42,
I can't remember which way around) that defaults to the BSD4.2 window size.
If you're going to run a network with 3.2 and 3.01 TCP/IP intermixed, you
_have_ to set this and rebuild the system (Defaults to unset 42COMPAT = 0).
Regards,
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