> >I am trying to troubleshoot a problem we are having with users at a remote
> >site. They are accessing our Sun Server running UNIX System V release 4.
> >They are running telnet sessions from Win98 workstations. They are
> >accessing our site via a 56k frame relay connection. They are accessing a
> >UniVerse database.
> > The problem they are having is that their Telnet sessions are locking
> >up. We do not have this problem with any other remote sites. We have
> >checked the routing tables in both routers and they appear to be fine.
> >Also, the Hosts file on the UNIX machine appears to be correct.
> > I am not very familiar with UNIX. Does anyone have any ideas what might
> >be causing this sort of problem or how to troubleshoot it? Any suggestions
> >would be greatly appreciated.
> A silly question, but could they be in the habit of pressing control-s?
> That is a "stop" character, which will freeze the terminal. Pressing
> control-q would unstick it.
> Also, when their telnets lock up, are you able to ping their windows '95
> computers from the Sun, and can they ping the Sun from their windows
> boxes? These are not equivalent tasks...
> Do all of them lock up at once, or do only one or two of them have
> problems at one time?
> Have you installed the latest patch cluster from sunsolve.sun.com?
> Yours Truly,
> Jeff Boulier
Without any more details it could be alot of things. One problem, especially in
dealing with
data bases is the mtu (maximum transmission unit) size that is going across your
frame relay. It it's too large, like well over 1500 or if it's going across a
WAN say-things
are going to slow way down. This is because telnet usually consists of small
buffered commands
as opposed to data base large buffered requirements. Hope I was some help;-)
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