On Wednesday, July 19, 2000 10:57 AM, Michael Adams  wrote:
: I'm VERY new to HP 3000 and Reflections. The company where I work used to
: use terminals on serial connection, but now wants to use Win98 clients on
: the Ethernet 100Mbps network to connect. The connection seems to work, but
: SOME users get kicked out of the connection at seemingly random intervals,
: while others can stay connected for hours with no problems. I'm sorry my
: info is so sketchy at this point: I do not know what version of Reflections
: we are using, and I was told that we are not using NS 3000 AT ALL. Any help
: would be a lifesaver!!

Another IIRC : on some newer PC's there is a power saving option in
the BIOS that has a time limit on it.  If the PC remains *idle* for
that time limit it slips into power saving mode.  Which means the NIC
doesn't respond when queried by the HP3000 as to whether the
connection is still active and viola...DISCO-nected.

Don't take me to task on the above, I dealt with that problem some
time ago so the details may be a tad fuzzy.

HTH

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