Hello Friends @ 3000-l,

Re: Gateway Automatic Recovery Fix & others

I have heard some concerns expressed out here about 3000 networking... yet
some the fixes have been available for some time and messages have been
posted to the 3000-l updating us all of this availability... some of these
fixes have not moved to General Release due to insufficient customers willing
to Beta Test.

- SA725 5003-437582 & Network Printer hangs 5003-401455 have been fixed in
  NSTFDD8 5.5 General Release.  If you are running networked printers, you
  are a likely candidate to see this problem.  Also fixed in NSTFD97 6.0
  Beta Test patch.

- TCP default receive window to small for BSD sockets 4701-422329 has been
  fixed in NSTFDD9 5.5 Beta Test patch.  This problem has frequently been
  seen with FTP/iX on MPE/iX 6.0 since the NETIPC calls were changed to BSD
  in FTP/iX on 6.0. Also fixed in NSTFD97 6.0 Beta Test patch.

- Gateway is marked down and not retried 5003-402107 has been fixed in
  NSTFDD9 5.5 Beta Test.  Also fixed in NSTFD97 6.0 Beta Test patch.

- Traceroute Utility available on MPE/iX 5003-442715. This enhancement is
  available in NSTFDD9 5.5 Beta Test and NSTFD97 6.0 Beta Test.  A special
  thanks to those folks out here on 3000-L who assisted with the Alpha
  Testing.

- Increase the maximum number of TCP connections to > 10,000 5003-404608.
  This enhancement is available in NSTFDD9 5.5 Beta Test and NSTFD97 6.0
  Beta Test (note: This enhancement also requires a companion NMMGR patch).

It is very disheartening for the lab and support folks who leark out here to
hear again and again these concerns expressed knowing these problems have
been fixed for a while but customers are not willing to install them.

Regards,

James Hofmeister
Hewlett Packard
Worldwide Technology Network Expert Center
P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.