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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: how to attach a modem for dial-in/out
Summary: get 3.3.1
Message-ID: <66136@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 5 Aug 90 21:27:52 GMT
References: <66085@sgi.sgi.com> <3813@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <3813@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>, wheelan@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Bill HEELAN) writes:
> ...
>    To test them I use 'cu' to dial out through one and into the other.  I am
>    able to log in all right, but when I log out and the modems disconnect
>    the machine hangs: the console is dead and rlogins are impossible,
>    although 'ping' gets replies....


3.2 IRIX on MP machines through at least the penultimate version of 3.2
(perhaps it was called 3.2.2) had bugs that could cause a CPU to lock-up.
Most of the complaints went away with fixes put in to the last version of
3.2 (perhaps 3.2.3--many of us are confused by the numbers).

As Murphy would have predicted, additional problems on MP machines have been
discovered and will be fixed in 3.3.1.

There is also a collection of low frequency (<1 occurrance/machine-millenium)
problems that we have not yet been able to reproduce, and so have not
been able to fix.  If you have a way to reproduce such problems, please
let the Hotline know.


Vernon Schryver
vjs@sgi.com