Connectivity between 4.1.3 and 2.4 (2.5)

2007-12-25 10:14:00

This time the list did not really work. I received one suggestion that the

problem existed in Solaris 2.4 and was taken care of by the jumbo kernel

patch. Well my problem is really on Solaris 2.5 (however also exists on 2.4).

The same problem is also visible on another network where I did not have

anything to do with the system setup, I am therefore surprised that noone

else seems to report the problem. I have done some analysis looking at

netstat -s and there is nothing there that looks strange.

Original qustion:

I have observed that IP connectivity between a SunOS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.4

or 2.5 host is terrible. A tool like tcpblast shows transfers in the range

of 600 to 700k. Exact details are:

ipx (4.1.3) -> ss5 (5.5) 600 - 800 kb/s

ipx (4.1.3) -> classic (5.3) 3 - 3.5 Mb/s

ipx (1.4.3) -> elc (4.1.3) 3.5 - 4.5 Mb/s

ipx (5.5) -> ss5 (5.5) 5 - 6.3 Mb/s

Watching the net I do not see anything that could be responsible, no huge

numbers of collisions, no errors. I have run those tests on other networks

as well, tested connections across routers, the results are always on the

same nature. Does anybody know what the problem is? Is there a patch for

that?

Ever since I upgraded my Solaris machines from 5.3 to 5.5 my NFS between

4.1.3 and Solaris keeps breaking down and I need to fix that fast.

Thanks to:

Michael J. Shon

Geert Touquet


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Tomasz M. Wolniewicz twoln@mat.uni.torun.pl
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics tel: +48-56-26017
Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland fax: +48-56-28979

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