Another cause of "Could not initalize data in path with TCP" is hackers
scanning your machine for vulnerabilities.  These scanning tools like to spray
you with IP packets that don't adhere to the TCP protocol, thus generating
various console messages.

- Mark B.

Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Gavin writes:
>
>
>>>Based on your description of a network that went on the
>>>
>> > blink, I'd say that you have a multi-processor system and were trying
>>
> some
>
>> > :NETCONTROL command that then hung the network.
>>
>> Nope.  We started getting various networking related errors such as:
>>
>>    h:mm/#Jnnn/pp/Could not initialize data in path with TCP
>>
>> and could not ping the box or establish any new IP connections.  It's not
>> clear whether existing connections were still working or not.  I had at
>> least one external indication that they were, but this might just not have
>> timed out yet.
>>
>
> The two conditions, the error message and not being able to ping the box, may
> not be related. Because we distribute QCTerm preset to the telnet address
> 209.181.113.217, which is the 918 of ours that we expose to the world, we get
> this specific error message quite frequently on that 918's console. The
> presence of the error message doesn't seem to indicate that anything is all
> that wrong with the 918, nor does it ever seem to foretell any sort of
> failure mode with the 918.
>
> I've taken it to be more of an indication of a poor quality network path than
> anything systemically wrong with the local HP3000, based on the single
> datapoint that one of the people who work with us out of his home in Missouri
> tends to promote this error half of the time he tries to sign on, and we know
> that his cable modem connection is ratty.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>
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