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i sincerely appreciate your viewpoint on this, yet... is this information
based upon experience? knowledge of what the message means from an
"technical" or "engineering" viewpoint? both or something else?
i am asking this because... lately... i dont think ive gained a lot of
insight from the portmaster users group... and i read every
single contribution.... from my experience the people that contrib here
are very talented in many ways, shapes, and forms...
i say this because i am the first one to admit... i dont know it all...
and i hope i never do...
YET-------- what troubles me is that, the same message coming from my
/var/adm/messages file nets me a call from a customer that i asked a week
ago to call me when he "locks" on his side... this happens after anywhere
from 10 to several hours... cant ping his port at this point and so he
dumps to call and have it happen again at some point... this info must be
valueable for something.
i seem to remember someone mentioning a reason or potential solution...
flow control? crappy software? pm gremlins? finger got ahead of me that
day and i dusted it... will have to check the condensed pm stuff or
ANYONE?
-rh
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Robert H. Hanson LAN/WAN Consultant - Internet Service Provider
Otis Orchards, Wa. Cutting Edge Communications www.cet.com
(509) 927-9541 finger: info@cet.com or email: roberth@cet.com
On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> Stephane Volet writes:
>
> > After checking our logs, I've seen numerous occasions where this one
> > specific user was getting dumped by the Portmaster with the following
> > message in the logs:
>
> > Nov 23 00:02:14 ??? error: port S1 stopped too long - flushing packet queue
>
> > Up till yesterday, only the one user had this problem so I suspected his
> > configuration to be the culprit... But I have now two other occurences with
> > other users using other operating systems (win3.11 and MacOS... ther first
> > one uses win95)...
>
> I occasionally see these messages too, but they don't cause my users
> to be dumped - or any other apparent serious problems. Most recently
> 9 such messages were logged this morning during a six-minute period
> about 3:25 AM square in the middle of an hour-long PPP session.
>
> On the "things to worry about" scale, these messages are down in the
> noise.
>
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