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From: pogran@CCQ.BBN.COM (Ken Pogran)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Was "The Patch" removed?
Message-ID: <8712232201.AA22257@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 23 Dec 87 19:28:29 GMT
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Mike,

Yes, last week's patch was removed last night.  Unfortunately, it
didn't solve the problem Andy Malis thought it would solve.  He
is about to test (in our own network, since we now have a Sun
with an X.25 interface hooked up to it) a new patch that should
work.  If it does work, it should be out in the ARPANET in the
near future.

Actually, we're suprised to learn from your message that the
patch that went in last week made things that much WORSE for you.
I think you and we mis-communicated.  You did mention in a
message to Andy, "Occasionally, maybe once or twice a day, the
X25 manager refuses to make outgoing or accept incoming calls ...
This has only occured since the midnight patch of a few days
ago." You mentioned that you were referring this problem to Sun,
so we took it to be a minor point for us; we didn't take it as a
request or a reason to pull the patch.  In hindsight, I guess we
should have.  Instead, we continued to view the patch as
"harmless" although not particularly successful in correcting the
problem it was supposed to correct.  Please accept our apologies
in this regard.

 Ken