[HECnet] netowrk flapping....

[Steve Davidson]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE 
[mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 07:24
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] netowrk flapping....

On 10/06/12 21:53, Marc Chametzky wrote:
I have increased the timeout values on the router that is 
attached 
to SG1::.   Hopefully this improves matters.

I may have missed something, but I saw that you increased the TCP 
timeouts. By default, DECnet-over-IP uses UDP packets, so that'd be 
the timeout you'd want to increase.

The uplink port is a gigabit port connected to my FiOS ONT
(connected at
100 Mbps).
What does it speak to the fios NT (I knew nothing about 
what strange 
things local phone compnies manage to do..) Is it just DHCP or 
exoting things like pppoe?
The ONT simply presents itself as a regular, routed 
100Base-TX network 
interface. There's no special protocol used between the 
SonicWALL and 
the ONT. The SonicWALL specifies 71.182.147.1 as its default route, 
which is either the ONT itself or something upstream from 
it. I don't 
know where the fiber's IP router actually lives.

I have five static IP addresses that I manually configure, 
so I'm not 
using DHCP on my WAN segment.

Now, getting back to the UDP versus TCP, MultiNet does 
support setting 
up DECnet circuits using TCP. It's not available via MULTINET 
CONFIGURE/DECNET from what I could see, but it is listed in 
the online 
help for MULTINET SET/DECNET as /TCP=[CONNECT|LISTEN]. TCP 
connections 
may prove to be more reliable under some circumstances.

--Marc


My   comments are probably completely useless, but I'll say it anyway.
I've seen this behaviour in a box with multiple network 
adapters where one (or more) are not connected to a network segment.

Mark.

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http://declegacy.org.uk



SG1:: only has 1 adapter.   It is a VAXstation 4000-30 (VLC).   It is
connected directly to the Netgear FVS318.

-Steve