DECnet/E and DECnet-Plus

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Fri Jan 30 22:49:12 2004

Zane,

> What isn't working is the following:
> Getting a directory of the VMS system from RSTS/E
> Copying files between the two systems
> Logging in from one system to the other

What I did notice is that DEQNA's (and DELQA's) quite often drop packets
as soon as traffic gets heavier on the network. I tested this at the
raw-iron level (my own bare-metal test code) so that is not an OS-
driver issue. Under E11, I did not see this weirdness happen, so it
is a real-hardware thing.

Test boxes were various BA23's and BA123's with /23, /53, /73 and /83
CPU's.

This packet-dropping *may* cause network unreliability with traffic-
intensive ops such as copying files..

--f
Received on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 22:49:12 GMT