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From: remaker@icarus.amd.com (Phillip Remaker)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: Terminal server hangs
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Date: 17 May 91 00:15:20 GMT
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ric@optima.UUCP (Ric Anderson) writes:


>Flavor 1 involved rlogin connections to Sun systems at SunOS 4.1
>and above (4.0.3 did not show the problem).  The terminal session
>would hang for 5 seconds, and then continue.

>The workaround (which cisco phone support supplied) was to set 
>	ip mtu 1064
>on the servers.  This completely eliminated the problem.

This hanging problem was fixed in 8.2.  As I upgrade to 8.2 throughout
the company, I am upgrading the MTU's back to 1500.

Also, I have had flowcontrol-related hanging problems like that that 
I am still working on, especially on dial-up connections.



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