29 Dec
2006
29 Dec
'06
8:46 p.m.
Scott,
At 3:41 PM -0800 12/29/06, Scott Quinn wrote:
>I'm running a VAX 4000/200 with OpenVMS 7.2 (Hobbyist V2) on it, and
>I'm having terrible problems with the networking. (DIGITAL
>TCP/IP/UCX v5.0). It seems that there were some bugs in this
>release, but I'm not yet sure exactly how to find the fixes for them
>(and the HP/DIGITAL website doesn't seem to be very helpful).
>Especially when running telnet, the VAX slows to a crawl. What have
>other members with this problem (and no access to newer UCXes at
>work or other locations) done?
If you're telnetting into the VAX from Linux, make sure to issue:
'export TERM=vt100' before you connect with the telnet command. The
string 'xterm' especially drives your VAX CPU usage through the roof,
for some reason I was never told. All I know is that specifying
'vt100' or another terminal type VAX knows will solve that problem
easily.
Josef
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