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From: klb@philabs.Philips.Com (Ken Bourque)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Smart Ethernet boards
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 11:14:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 14 11:14:03 1987
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Reply-To: klb@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Ken Bourque)
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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>We have several of the Qbus Excelan boards in MicroVAX/VMS machines.
>
>We have two MAJOR problems with the boards.  We have requested, pleaded,
>and complained to Excelan, all to no avail.  Our personal experience
>indicates that the Excelan customer support is less than adequate.
>We have had these problems for months and months with no fixes in
>sight from Excelan.
>

I have had a separate problem, perhaps related.  Here's the scenario:

(On machine A, VMS)
$ set host B
(On machine B, VMS)
$ telnet C		! Excelan's telnet
(Machine C runs Unix)

At this point I have problems.  If my DECnet connection is local (Ethernet),
and I cat out a long file on machine C, the terminal hangs and output
characters get dropped.  If my DECnet connection is via X.25 to Europe, I
can't even log in to machine C!  It takes over a minute to get a login prompt
from the Unix machine.  When I finally do, character echo times are about 20
seconds, characters are echoed in the wrong order, and the login times out
before I can do anything.  I am sure that the DECnet connection is not the
problem.  Has anyone seen anything like this??  (Excelan customer support is
worthless).

Ken Bourque  ...!seismo!philabs!klb  -or-  klb@philabs.philips.com