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From: elewis@olympos.cs.umd.edu (Ed Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Any experience with Excelan?
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Date: 15 Nov 89 18:39:41 GMT
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I am using an Excelan (exlax?) TCP/IP board on a VMS machine running version
5.  I have had considerable success with the board (in getting it to do
what I think it should do), but am running into some problems.  I am looking
for some help.

The specific problem is that I am running out of TCP buffers after a number of
refused connections.  Is there anyway to free the buffers tied up for the failed
connections?  The problem goes away when I stop the program (I wrote) and re-
start the process, so I believe the buffers are only tied up because they are
allocated to my process.  It is not a system wide problem unless my process has
tied them up.

Ed Lewis (elewis@palantir.gsfc.nasa.gov)

P.S.  In case it matters the machine is a VAX 8600.
P.P.S.  The only manual I have is for the microVax.  Hmm, maybe that's the
problem.