From: nick@symphony.mp.ucc.ie (Nick Hilliard) Subject: Re: NCSA doesn't like Linux - hangs Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 14:13:50 GMT
Jay Pfaffman (pfaffman@relax.des.edu) wrote:
: MARK@novell.business.uwo.ca (Mark_Bramwell) writes:
: >I just downloaded the latest release of SLS. kernel -> .99.9 I do believe.
: >I can telnet in but NCSA hangs at random periods. WinQvtNet also hangs.
: >I can telnet ok from an HP9000 unix box.
: >Has anyone else had difficulties with NCSA.
: I've had similar problems with NCSA telnet when ftping lots of stuff.
: It seemed that if I did it slowly it worked ok, I guess it's some kind
: of race problem.
I found that the NCSA telnet hanging problem got worse after 0.99.4. At the
moment, I'm using kernel 0.99.9, with the tcp/ip stuff from 0.99.4. It needs
a few kludges to get it to work properly, but it's much more stable than the
0.99.9 tcp/ip.
It still hangs occasionally, though :-(
Nick