David wrote:

HP found the cause...   Apparently, the UDP software still had a flag
set which indicated that the network was being shutdown.  Their
solution... any guesses???... reboot.  Rebooted at lunch, and the
problem has gone away.  (For now, at least.)

I wasn't showing any signs of an error, other than FTP hanging on the
open statement.

Thanks for the help,
David N. Lukenbill

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We had a similar (same?) problem.  In our case NS3000 (in particular
NetIPC) was failing to cleanly shutdown.  HP support suggested
putting PAUSE statements between the NSCONTROL and NETCONTROL
statements in our NETSTOP command file.  I suppose the same should be
true for NETSTART.

NETSTOP:

    CONTINUE
    SNACONTROL STOP
    PAUSE 30
    CONTINUE
    NETCONTROL STOP
    PAUSE 30
    CONTINUE
    NSCONTROL STOP
    PAUSE 30

NETSTART:

    CONTINUE
    NETCONTROL START;NET=LAN0
    CONTINUE
    NETCONTROL START;NET=LAN1
    CONTINUE
    NETCONTROL START;NET=LOOP
    PAUSE 30
    CONTINUE
    NSCONTROL START
    PAUSE 30
    CONTINUE
    SNACONTROL START;NODE=CULB23

Hope this helps.

Steve Barrett