ESIX has a bug.

[Bob Palowoda]

>From article <613 at aablue.UUCP>, by jb at aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia):
> Hello, a short while ago a posted about a problem I had encountered with
> ESIX's HDB uucp after I loaded its TCP/IP software. Thanks to all those
> who responded and made suggestions. Yesterday, the ESIX tech folks did
> respond about this problem. (Yeah!) They had confirmed that I wasn't 
> imagining the problem and that there is something happening with either
> sendmail or rwho under TCP/IP, ie. a bug. Apparently, now that they know
> about it, they've said they'll try to get it fixed.



  Hmm, I running about the same configureation you with sendmail rwho
  etc. And my typicial throughput on news is about 1300 to 1500cps.
  Please express more detail about a bug before posting it to the net.
  Just saying "Yeah I loaded it, it don't work, they said it dosn't work,
  they said it had a bug, but I don't know what the bug is" is not enough.
  It's really not fair to any vendors software product. What people want 
  to read is "Yeah it's got a bug, this is a list of my hardware, this
  is what the bug does, this is a list of all my config files that 
  where used, and most of all if you agree to with the vendor what the
  bug is write it down."


> 
> In case others might be considering ESIX, the problem caused HDB i/o to
> drop by a factor 8 when TCP/IP was loaded. HDB did NOT fail altogether!
> Running Uutry with -x = 9 show that packets were either getting corrupted or
> not being acknowledged after receipt. Removing TCP/IP and making no
> other changes, either hardware or software, made the problem disappear.
> BTW, the problem was much more aggravated when ESIX was receiving.

  Interesting what interupt are you using on the eithernet card? 
> 
> All in all, I'd still recommend ESIX. The technician I spoke with said
> that it did take a little while to duplicate the problem I had and then
> figure out why it was occuring.

  I'm confused in your first paragraph you said they "They had confirmed
  the you where not imagineing the problem". Now your saying they have
  to figure a way to duplicate the problem?  What state do you live in?



  ---Bob


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