RE: [SLUG] Telnet from the Borg

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

We had a similar problem with a sockets application.

It has got to do with the TCP/IP stack of the client (in this MS Win) and
the server.
About 5 years back, I was having this same problem with the Firefox IP stack
on Netware going to HPUX. We never had problems going from Firefox to AIX,
but with the HPUX, the socket connections used to time_wait/fin_wait, if the
program terminated abnormally.

On AIX, the cleanup interval is specified by the command "no" (network
options) and I vaguely remember that it being a kernel parameter on HPUX
that you modify using SAM. Not sure what it is on Linux.

-- Aravind



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au
> [mailto:owner-slug@nospam.newtreno.spectrum.com.au]On Behalf Of Jill Rowling
> Sent: Monday, 5 June 2000 12:34
> To: slug@nospam.slug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Telnet from the Borg
>
>
> I still think it's a Windows problem and nothing to do with the
> telnet app.
> I just tried three different telnets from NT to *NIX:
> - Microsoft's one that comes with NT (no it does not seem to
> contain any BSD
> references but it was compiled with Microsoft C++)
> - The one that comes with Hummingbird Exceed
> - Peter Zander's EWAN program
>
> They all sit there in TIME_WAIT after disconnecting, for quite
> some time (5
> mins or so).
> No other *NIXes do that, so I just blame Microsoft again for breaking
> things.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jill.
>
> ___________________________________________
> Jill Rowling
> Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
> Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies
> 3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
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>
> 	Erich said:
>
> > Run cygwin on your windows machine, and use a real version of telnet
> >
> 	Jeff said:
> Never seen that happen, but I think we can all agree that Telnet.exe is
> a very, well, silly piece of software (if anyone can confirm that
> the Telnet
> in Win2K is BSD derived, I'd be interested to hear it).
>
>
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