"Mark Undrill" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in
news:[log in to unmask]:

>
> "Witchsmeller Jason" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in
> message news:Xns9334DF7794D42jasondsnape@195.92.193.157...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope someone can help with a problem I have at work. We have a very
> small
>> LAN with a HP/3000 918 (MPE/iX 6) and various Windows PCs connected
>> to a hub which is in turn connected to a BT 5861 Router. One of our
>> jobs which e-mails statements to our suppliers using the MailNM
>> program has started
> to
>> fail with the error: UNKNOWN NODE. (SOCKERR 40). Everything worked
>> fine until we got a replacement BT 5861 Router so I'm assuming this
>> is the
> cause
>> of the problem? Below is an example typed from the command prompt
>> that gives
>> the same error.
>>
>> :xeq mailnm.net.sys -t [log in to unmask] -f [log in to unmask] -h
>> mailsrvr.company.co.uk -s 'test'
>> Mar  4 16:35:29 mailnm[98] OpenSocket: IPCDEST: UNKNOWN NODE.
>> (SOCKERR
> 40)
>> Program terminated in an error state. (CIERR 976)
>>
>> Unfortunately I know very little about MPE & the HP3000 but I'm the
>> one who's inherited the job of sorting it out. If anyone can help or
>> even
> point
>> me in the right direction I would really appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks, Jason.
>
> For those in the US. The BT 5861 is a rebadged Essential Networks EN
> 5861 flashed with BTs' firmware. I don't know what SOCKERR 40 is but
> I'm guessing that it's unable to open the outbound SMTP connection. We
> have two of these devices at different locations and are able to do
> outbound SMTP although we haven't tried it from the HP3000.
>
> Did the IP address of the router change when it was replaced? If so
> you will have to change the default gateway address in NMMGR to point
> to the new IP address.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Mark Undrill
> Affirm Limited
>
>
>

Mark,

The IP address shouldn't have changed but I'll look into it, thanks for
your response.

Jason.

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