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From: giebelhaus@hi-csc.UUCP (Timothy R. Giebelhaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Apollo TCP/IP problems
Message-ID: <388a01aa.bab@hi-csc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 19:40:00 EST
Article-I.D.: hi-csc.388a01aa.bab
Posted: Tue Nov 17 19:40:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Nov-87 03:00:38 EST
References: <5400004@iuvax>
Organization: Honeywell CSDD, Golden Valley, MN
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Summary: Apollo has a fix if you ask them for it.

In article <5400004@iuvax>, jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes:
> 
> 	We are having terrible problems with rlogin/rsh/rcp on our Apollos
> to and from our EtherNET UNIX environment.  The usual problem is that you
> cannot make a new connection (either we get connection timed-out or a network
> unreachable).  I've heard that there is a way to do static routing using the
> route command and I've added the route information manually in startup.spm
> on our DSP-90 server.

There is indeed a problem with tcp.  The /etc/routed dies occationally.
If you call 1-800-2AP-OLLO and ask for a patch, you should have it inside
of a week (assuming you have a service contract).  Other than the routed,
the Apollo TCP seems to work pretty good for me.
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