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From: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 60-second timeout in Unix login
Message-ID: <2212@encore.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 21:39:21 EST
Article-I.D.: encore.2212
Posted: Sun Nov 22 21:39:21 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Nov-87 05:18:39 EST
References: <4139@venera.isi.edu> <3516@xanth.UUCP>
Reply-To: loverso@Multimax.ARPA (John Robert LoVerso)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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In article <3516@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
> If the network between the local host and the remote host is so
> clogged that you can't get your login name and password to remote
> machine within 60 seconds, you certainly shouldn't be loading the net
> any further.  And you weren't going to get much done until the network
> activity died down, anyway.

You probably haven't used the ARPAnet much, lately.  With some packets
getting up to 15 second (or more) turnaround times, I sometimes get
burnt buy a 60 second login period.  However, once logged in, telnet
in line-at-a-time mode makes getting something useful done on the
remote machine no that hard.

John