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Title:DEChub/HUBwatch/PROBEwatch CONFERENCE
Notice:Firmware -2, Doc -3, Power -4, HW kits -5, firm load -6&7
Moderator:NETCAD::COLELLADT
Created:Wed Nov 13 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4455
Total number of notes:16761

2679.0. "HUBwatch V4 fails on laptop" by TROFS::WEBSTER (NIS, London, Canada) Thu Aug 24 1995 20:12

	I just upgraded my laptop version of HUBwatch from 3.1 to 4.0. Now it
	will not run. I now get a "System Error" after I enter the IP address
	of the agent and the window "initialize" is displayed.

	The README.DOC states that I probably have a problem with DECPW.386,
	enviroment variables, or windows is in standard mode. I have verified
	that all this is OK. The only thing I do not have is the minimum
	20Mb swapfile, stated in the README.DOC but not in the installation
	manual.

	Could this be causing the problem?

	I have tried both the Windows IP stack and the DEC IP stack. This is
	set up on a 425SL with 8Mb of memory.

	Has anyone got V4 running on a laptop?

	-Larry
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2679.1PING?; check stackNETCAD::WAGNERCOFFILThu Aug 24 1995 20:559
	Using the DEC IP stack, can you ping the HUB in Windows
	from a DOS prompt?

	If no can you ping yourself?

	Does the stack load correctly when you reboot?

Barb

2679.2Works Running Pathworks V5 STack, and HUBwatch SLIPMSDOA::REEDJohn Reed @CBO = Network ServicesFri Aug 25 1995 03:485
    I am using HUBwatch V4, on a 425SL with 8Megs.  It works nicely, if you
    don't have too many modules inthe hub, or too many entries in the
    DECagent tables.
    
    JR (who's wishing for a HiNote)
2679.3OK on a 425SLC/eHERON::virenq.vbo.dec.com::HEMMINGSLanterne RougeFri Aug 25 1995 10:173
I have a 425SLC/e (the Olivetti) with 8Mb and it's OK - I can run either over 
a Xircom adaptor or via the Netrider package.  Not overpoweringly speedy, but 
it's OK ...
2679.4Have exactly the same problem ...MFRNW1::SCHUSTERKarl Schuster @RTO OMS Munich GermanyFri Aug 25 1995 11:406
    I have a HiNote Ultra Notebook - and get exactly the same error:
        "System Error"
    
    PING to the HUB works, but not HUBwatch !
    
    Karl
2679.5HUBWATCH_SYSTEM logical pointerNETCAD::GORDONFri Aug 25 1995 11:435
    Just a guess...
    
     Do you still have an entry HUBWTACH_SYSTEM set ?
     If so, the v4.0 hubwatch doesn't modify this entry in your autoexec.
    You have to do that manually.....
2679.6check WINSOCK.DLL; check Conventional memoryNETCAD::WAGNERCOFFILFri Aug 25 1995 13:5541
>>     Do you still have an entry HUBWTACH_SYSTEM set ?
>>     If so, the v4.0 hubwatch doesn't modify this entry in your autoexec.
>>    You have to do that manually.....

HUBwatch V4.0.1 will comment out (REM HUBWATCH_SYSTEM) in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
If you choose not to have your AUTOEXEC.BAT modified by the installation,
if you do not REM out this line, and if the HUBWATCH_SYSTEM points to a 
different location then you will have a problem.

***************************************************************************

Getting back to the SYSTEM ERROR...
Search your local disk/s for WINSOCK.DLL.
The WINSOCK.DLL should be in the directory that your stack is in.
WINSOCK.DLL should NOT be in \WINDOWS or \WINDOWS\SYSTEM.

**If you have multiple occurences of WINSOCK.DLL MAKE SURE that the one**
**in your stack directory APPEARS IN YOUR PATH STATEMENT BEFORE ANY OTHER.**

The WINSOCK.DLL path must occur in the PATH statement.

i.e. Using PATHWORKS V5.1 TCP/IP stack
>SEARCH
c:\pw\WINSOCK.DLL
c:\hubwatch\IPSTACK\WINSOCK.DLL
c:\windows\winsock.dll   --> WRONG, should not be here but say it is for 
			     the example.
>PATH
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\PW;....

Problem is that HUBwatch will use the first occurrence of the WINSOCK.DLL
in the path, in this case the one in \WINDOWS. It should be using the
one in C:\PW.

The invocation of HUBwatch TCP/IP satck (C:\HUBWATCH\IPSTACK\STRTNDIS)
always puts the C:\HUBWATCH\IPSTACK as the first path in the PATH statement.

Also check conventional memory used.

Barb

2679.7425SE laptop also...NETCAD::WAGNERCOFFILFri Aug 25 1995 15:257
	BTW...
	I have a 425SE laptop, 8 MEG of RAM, Windows for Workgroups 3.11,
	HUBwatch IP stack and PW IP stack, XIRCOM(PE3), and HUBwatch V4.0.1.
	Can be a little slow, but overall not too bad.

	Barb