Re: (PM) Trouble upgrading on busy PM3

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
Wed, 5 May 1999 12:24:58 -0500

Once upon a time, D. Scott Gardner <sgardner@livingston.com> said:
> Another scenario:
>
> User A is using tftp from the ComOS command line to upgrade the PortMaster
> 3. This PortMaster 3 is using ChoiceNet for its filters. A user dials
> into the PortMaster 3 who requires a filter. The PortMaster 3 requests the
> filter from its ChoiceNet server. The ChoiceNet server opens a connection
> on port 1643 to download the filter onto the PortMaster 3. Once the filter
> is downloaded, ChoiceNet closes the connection and the file descriptor is
> closed. The tftp running on the PortMaster 3 fails because the file
> descriptor was closed.

This is it! I use ChoiceNet filters for most every connection into my
PM3s, so I get quite a few ChoiceNet connections.

> This problem has been fixed in ComOS 3.9, 4.0, 4.1, ...

Good. I'll only have to go through this one more time (when I upgrade
beyond 3.8.2c2).

> This problem was described in the PMVision 1.3 release notes.

I have to say I never would have looked there for information about
problems related to upgrading a PM3 (since I use tftp usually).

> Hope this info helps everyone.

It sure helps me. Thanks.

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