A few months back the portion of a Payroll program that telnets from the
HP3000 to a port on an NT server quit working.  After some
experimenting, it was determined that the communication from the HP to
the NT box was dropping about half of the characters being sent.  The
problem could be overcome by sending twice the number of characters
needed, but a legitimate solution was not found.

We have expended large amounts of time in attempt after failed attempt
to
get rid of the problem.  Testing indicates that the problem originates
and is confined to the HP, specifically the HP’s telnet.  A sniffer
confirms that not all characters typed on the HP are reaching
the NT box.  It remains unclear how to make the thing behave.  It has
been suggested that perhaps one of the hamsters has been snacking on
selected network packets coming from the HP, however this appears
unlikely as no evidence exists that the hamsters’ feeding schedule
should been called into question, and the critters don’t care to swipe
other processes’ substantially meatier packets.  

Outside of the hamster theory does anyone out there have any ideas as to
what is going on?

TIA,

Ted

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Ted Johnson                     [log in to unmask]
Information Systems	
Wake Forest University          336-758-4374
Winston-Salem, NC 27109         336-758-7127 FAX

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