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From: jec@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: TCP/IP 3.1 hangs on rsh
Message-ID: <5400029@iuvax>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:43:00 GMT
Organization: Indiana University CSCI, Bloomington
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Nf-From: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu!jec    Jul 19 11:43:00 1988


	I've experienced what I think is a bug with TCP/IP 3.1 and would
like to know if anyone has noticed it and every better, if anyone has a fix.

	I have a script that I run that tries to do a rsh on each apollo 
from the VAX (Ultrix 2.2) in order to determine if TCP/IP services are
functioning.  The problem is that sometimes (not always), the rsh will
hang forever.  I do a:

	% rsh io.cs.indiana.edu /bin/echo UP

	and it will sit there for tens of hours.  I've noticed that it only
seems to occur on diskless nodes.  I'm running SR9.7, Domain/IX 9.5, TCP 3.1,
and the nodes boot from  DSP90s with 3MBs, (one of the DSP90's is the gateway,
but the other is a typical node in the network).

Any ideas?

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