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From: lid@cernvax.UUCP (lid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Rwhod problems
Message-ID: <727@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 09:18:39 GMT
References: <8806162110.AA12175@caesar.cs.mtsu.edu>
Reply-To: lid@cernvax.UUCP ()
Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Yes, I have an idea, get the tcp3.1, it is MUCH better ! Why ?
	1) tcp_server initializes and when done forks itself, so you
	can start it up with 'cps -w' and the following tcp servers
	(ftp, inetd, whatever) will work correctly.
	2) is much more robust, I run (via cron) a script every 1/2 hour
	to restart tcp servers if any of them go crazy: with previou TCPs
	they were restarted on average once a day (I was running tcp+ftp+
	syslog+sendmail), now it seems to stay up almost forever.
	3) tcp3.0 has a bug that has to do with subnets (e.g.: say your
	address is 100.0.1.55, you can contact all hosts 100.0.1.??, no
	problem, but you cannot reach, say, host 100.0.2.45: tcp thinks
	is a different network and hasn't got a gateway to it ! check with
	/usr/ucb/netstat -r and you'll see, it won't show routes to 100.0.0.0,
	but routes to 100.0.1.0).
Last remark: 'cps -w' does not work in the server_process_manager startup
script, oh why Apollo introduces these annoying bugs ? Are we supposed to
run tcp gateways only on user nodes ?

	Achille Petrilli, Cray and PWS Operations