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From: pjs269@tijc02.UUCP (Paul Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Apollo hangs on VT100 emulator rlogin
Message-ID: <713@tijc02.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 14:52:49 GMT
Organization: Texas Instr., Johnson City TN
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We are running SR9.7 and have been having a problem with the
remote login to another computer.  The ring has 16 nodes using
a single gateway to ethernet.  The problem is that occasionally
the Apollo will hang for many seconds.  The remote computer
times the Apollo out and disconnects.  We are running with large
size vt100s (>24x80).

My theory is that the Apollo software on Ethernet takes too long
to process collisions on the network.  This is because of the
following evidence:
	1)  The gateway node is not being used so it is not a problem
		with the gateway being overloaded.
	2)  We had some faulty hardware on the network that produced
		bad packets.  The Apollo software would halt for minutes
		at a time, but would seem to recover several minutes 
		after the packets were gone.
If anyone can add support or disprove this theory, I would 
appreciate the input.