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From: SofPasuk@imagen.UUCP (Munach Rvi'i)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR9.5.1 - Are we happy???
Message-ID: <1332@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 18:38:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: imagen.1332
Posted: Thu Jul  2 18:38:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 11:08:45 EDT
References: <401@gamma.UUCP>
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Summary: YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE!

In article <401@gamma.UUCP>, wb@gamma.UUCP writes:
> SR9.5.1 was, according to some at Apollo, the answer to all
> of our ills; the latest and greatest.  Well, it was late.
> I remember being told at a meeting held over a year ago in
> Chelmsford that SR9.5 would soon be here.  Is it great?
> I don't think so.  Not only haven't they fixed any of the
> TCP/IP routing problems which I reported to them about a
> year ago, I do not see any of the performance improvements
> which were supposed to be associated with the recompilation
> of the operating system with the new compiler(s).
> 
> I'm interested in hearing a discussion among other users
> as to their level of satisfaction with SR9.5.1.  I'm now told
> that all of my TCP/IP problems will be fixed in SR9.6 (which
> will include TCP/IP 3.1), but I can't seem to find out when
> that will be released (next year?).  It may be sooner, though,
> since one SR9.5.1 UCR came back with the comment that the
> problem in question would be fixed in SR10!
> 
> Am I the olny one who is experiencing severe problems using
> Apollo TCP/IP is a very large networking environment?

No, you are not.  At IMAGEN we have 50+ diskless nodes (DN300 and DN330)
and 10 file servers (DSP-80a and DSP-90).  We use ethernet tcp/ip to 
communicate with printers, our VAX systems, Sun workstations, etc.

The tcp/ip that was shipped with 9.5.1 has more errors in it than an early
Mets game, more bugs than an entomology lab.  If suffers from data corruption
and zero window problems and miscellaneous crashes.

We have Apollo personnel onsite now analyzing our network - the kids in
Chelmsford are allegedly waiting for the results such that they can really
fix tcp/ip (3.1) and then release 9.6.

Do we think that this will solve all our ills?  Don't bet on it!