| Title: | PATHWORKS for OpenVMS (NetWare) Conf. |
| Notice: | Shipping on OpenVMS/Alpha and OSF/1 - ECOs=314.* - Kits=21.* |
| Moderator: | DELNI::GORCZYCA |
| Created: | Wed Nov 04 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 805 |
| Total number of notes: | 2930 |
I have fielded the following query: ---------------- We were looking at a slow response problem that some of our PC users had, and found the following: 1. A user with a PC and Novell 3.12 client is accessing a volume that is offered by an Alpha running VMS 6.2 and Pathworks for Netware. If the Alpha is on the same LAN, the maximum packet size that is exchanged between the PC and the Alpha is ~1080. If the Alpha is over the WAN, the packet size is no more then 562. The same PC can access a volume offered by an Intel based server, will use a packet size of 1498 for both cases (LAN or WAN). We tested also access to an Alpha with WNT and NW (only on the LAN), and the packet size was ~1498. The above test was done with NETX on the client. The same test with VLM gave similar results. 2. I can see a patern where the VAX or Alpha will use a much smaller packet then a native Novell server. This will cause us performance problems, as the time it take to perfrom file access over the WAN or LAN is longer. Is there a way to force the VAX/Alpha to use the larger packet size? --------------- Richard Quan Tech Support CSF Melbourne [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 793.1 | IPX-router = smaller packets | CPEEDY::COOK | Just say NO to that AccViO! - Java!!! | Tue Mar 25 1997 14:31 | 10 |
The behavior you describe (smaller packets) will happen when
the packets pass thru an IPX-router...i.e. the router is necessitating
shorter packets. (An IPX router will even be involved if the frame-type
set for a client does not match the frame-type being used at the
server, as can be true on our LKG-lan, where there are frame-type
IPX routers setup so that clients can be configured to use whatever
IPX-frametype they choose.)
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