TCP chokes between Ultrix 4 and 3.1c systems

[Guy Middleton]

In article <41981 at mips.mips.COM> len at mips.COM (Len Lattanzi) writes:
> In article <1990Oct9.040440.23066 at watcgl.waterloo.edu> idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
> :Aha!  We see this behaviour between real MIPS machines and our Ultrix
> :3.1C DECsystem 5400's.  BSD Vaxen, Suns, other machines, have no
> :problem talking to the 5400's, but connecitons from those three MIPS
> :machines hang on large packets.  And it's asymmetric -- we can rcp *out*
> :of the DS5400, but not in.
> 
> The first M/120's did not support trailers on enet packets and silently
> hung connections to other hosts that sent them. (just a guess but try
> turning off trailers on all interfaces -- I have no idea if Ultrix
> 3.1/4.0 enet hangs have similar causes) 

Aha.  That seems to fix the problem.  I'll disable trailers on all our mips
boxes; they are evil in any case.