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From: ken@helix.nih.gov (Ken Weeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: MacTCP problem?
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Date: 4 Dec 90 00:42:56 GMT
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Thanks to Brad & Conrad for their ideas - I guess I should have been more 
specific...

I've installed the Comm toolbox, if that makes any difference. My Mac is 
on the Ether directly, via a Cabletron card. We do have a FastPath (my 
apologies, Brad!) doing KIP routing and dynamic IP number assignment for 
the LocalTalk folks, but I've got a static IP address - should be the 
simple set-up here. I tried varying the max segment size a bit, but got 
the same hangup. I tried re-installing the Cabletron driver software, but 
with no success. I mention the card because one of my colleagues down the 
hall *DOESN'T* get the hang up - he's got a Nuvotech card, but he's also 
on a IIfx with lots of other differences. Oh, and the LocalTalk folks 
don't hang up, either - but it's as reliable as sunrise on this box.

It doesn't seem to be time-dependent - I can make it hang almost 
immediately. I have had a problem with a MacTCP/VMS Telnet not getting 
along before. My supplier, Process Software, sent me a simple patch, with 
a warning that "whoever" wrote that client software wasn't doing "proper 
PSH notification" (?).  Once again, NCSA Telnet for the PC and the Mac 
version with the embedded driver seemed to have no problems (cursor keys 
wouldn't work), so I kinda suspected MacTCP. 

*BIG DISCLAIMER*  - I have absolutely no idea just WHAT is going on!  I 
know vendors love to point at the other guy and say "It's HIS fault", so I 
mention this just for reference. I'm posting this message using MacTCP. I 
really love it. Honest! (-:

Anyway, the problem seems limited to this machine. At least my users 
aren't breathing down my neck for answers!

I don't know if there's a general interest here. If you'll reply by 
E-mail, I'll summarize and post as soon as I figure this *&^%# thing out.

Ken Weeks  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.
"Once in a while you get shown the light,
In the strangest of places, if you look at it right..."