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Subject: Fwd: RE: PowerPC woes
From: "Dale L. Brewe" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 11:08:20 -0600


Another possible cause of this problem could be that
a boot was interrupted while in progress. If the IOC
comes up and tries to reuse the same TCP port the
Solaris server sometimes waits a very long time before
it times out the old TCP circuit and begins communicating
with the IOC which is presenting TCP sequence numbers
that are invalid in the Solaris FTP server's perspective.


I haven't been following this too closely, but this suggestion reminds me of the problems we started having after we upgraded to solaris 2.7 from 2.5.1. The problem went away after issuing the command "/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_time_wait_interval 10000" . I think the default was 240000. This doesn't survive a reboot, so I put this is a startup script. I believe notes on this are somewhere in the EPICS listserver archives.
dale Brewe


>
>
> We had a similar problem when booting our MV2304's where it would
> take an extremely long time to boot.  After messing with the ethernet
> settings we finally settled on changing from using rsh to tftp when
> booting our crates:
>
>       ftp password = blank
>       flags           = 0x88
>
> Of course this means you need to have your host setup to support tftp.
> In our case our hosts are Solaris workstations.
>
> Kevin Tsubota
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nick Rees [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:39 AM
> > To: Mark Rivers
> > Cc: '[email protected] '
> > Subject: RE: PowerPC woes
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Mark Rivers wrote:
> >
> > > I have a different suggestion from Andrew's.  I have seen a
> > very similar
> > > problem to the on Nick describes on the MVME2700.  The
> > problem is actually
> > > with the Ethernet 10/100 autonegotiation.  If I plug the
> > Ethernet into a
> > > 10/100 Hub it works fine.  If I plug it into certain types
> > of Ethernet
> > > switches (e.g. Cisco 2924 I think) it takes several
> > minutes, and it does it
> > > twice as Nick observed. Try using a different physical
> > device and see if it
> > > improves.
> >
> > I have tried four configurations:
> >
> > 1. An autoconfiguring 10/100 switch (Allied Telesyn),
> > 2. An autoconfiguring 10/100 hub (SMC)
> > 3. A fixed 10 base T switch (Allied Telesyn)
> > 4. A fixed 100 base TX hub (Allied Telesyn).
> >
> > All with no result. Sob. Sob.
> >
> > I have also tried changing the address translation stuff as
> > per Andrew's
> > suggestions, but to no avail. However, I may have got it
> > wrong, so I will
> > continue to think about it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Nick Rees
> >
> > Joint Astronomy Centre               Ph:       +1 (808) 961-3756
> > 660 N. Aohoku Place                  Fax:      +1 (808) 961-6516
> > Hilo, HI.  96720                     Internet: [email protected]
> >

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dale L. Brewe PNC-CAT/U. of Washington ph: 630 252 0582 fax: 630 252 0580 Mail: Argonne National Laboratory Bldg 435E sector 20 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



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