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Re: Solution for dosemu disconnecting during ipx/novell sessions.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Sat Oct 28 22:07:07 1995
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: greg@wind.rmcc.com (G.W. Wettstein)
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 18:33:33 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-msdos@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199510271708.MAA21651@wind.rmcc.com> from "G.W. Wettstein" at Oct 27, 95 12:08:11 pm
> connections to the Novell server. Using kernel level IPX has resulted
> in almost flawless connections. In addition the speed of the kernel
> solution seems to be better than the packet driver.
It will be.
> As the dosemu docs say this smells suspiciously like some sort of
> watchdog or keep-alive functionality is missing from the kernel ipx
> networking or in the dosemu code. I suspect that something this
> simple would have probably been fixed by this time however.
The DOSemu IPX layer appears to return the wrong thing when asked
for the local node number. This in turn causes wrong keepalives and
the timeout problem. I don't know if the DOSemu people plan to fix it
or not.
Alan
