On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:15:11 UTC, "Trevor Hemsley"
wrote:

> Two possibilities spring to mind and both are bugs fixed in later releases
> - there is a bug in one version of MPTS/TCPIP that fills up the routing
> table and then things randomly stop working. Rerunning \mptn\bin\setup.cmd
> runs the 'route -fh' command and flushes that table and everything springs
> back into life. This was the theory I was getting you to test by running
> it when you had the problem. I don't remember what version of MPTS and/or
> TCPIP was affected by this nor what the fix was (other than upgrade!).

I'm not sure if it ever _was_ fixed. Wasn't it eventually discovered to be
sockets rather than the routing table? The fix for that was to change the
'keepalive' setting to something sane like 60 (which IIRC was the default in
Warp 4) from the later default of 7800. Most of us have made this change so
long ago we're not having the problem anymore (and eCS always sets it to
something smallish by default).

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