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From: backman@interlan.UUCP (Larry Backman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm
Subject: Re: Netware
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Date: 2 Sep 88 19:05:54 GMT
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Reply-To: Larry Backman <interlan!backman@eddie.mit.edu>
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In article <8808291219.AA06264@jade.berkeley.edu> Hank Nussbacher
        <HANK%TAUNIVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
>The Novell Netware TCP option allows TCP/IP interconnection via a
>Micom Interlan NP 600 card.  But buried in the documentation is the
>following statement:
>
>"As mentioned earlier, the FTP services for suers on the TCP network
>are singlethreaded, meaning only one TCP user can be handled at a time.
>Users attempting to access the server while another user is logged in
>will receive standard TCP messages like Connection Unavailable."
>
>Does this mean that this expensive software/hardware is only going to
>work for one user at a time?  Are they referring to Telnet and FTP
>together or seperately?  Am I reading old documentation - which is no
>longer valid?
>


        []

        I guess I should have read the manual draft's better! The
        manual is wrong; the gateway supports 32 sockets; the
        FTP server supports 4 concurrent incoming FTP data sockets.

        You can have any combination of Telnet's FTP's SMTP's, RSHELL's,
        etc within the following rules:

                There are only 32 total sockets on the board.
                FTP SERVER SMTP SERVER, RWHOD SERRVER take one each.

                Telnet's take a single socket.
                Both FTP clients and FTP server sessions take a
                single control socket plus a second temporary data
                socket while the file is being transferred.

        What does it really mean?  Roughly 20 concurrent user's, possibly
        a few more, depending on what they are doing.

        Please refer me to the appropriate page in the doc. so I can
        fix it.


                                        Larry Backman
                                        Micom - Interlan