OpenVMS VAX 7.2 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

29 Dec 2006

Scott,

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  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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