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W32_FDN is available via the FileGate, Filebone, Planet Connect, or FidoGate, paonline.com & other FTP services. Authors! Want the best distribution for -your- Windows95 programs? You get it when you use the W32_FDN! Contact Gary Gilmore via Fidonet at 1:2410/400 (or garyg@oeonline.com) for details, or visit the W32_FDN website at "http://oeonline.com/~garyg/w32_fdn/" for more information. --- * Origin: bloom county * W32_FDN Headquarters * 313-582-0888 (1:2410/400) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGX00007 Date: 12/25/97 From: HERWIG SCHECK Time: 12:08pm \/To: GILLES HEMBERG (Read 2 times) Subj: WinNT slowing down a Win95 client in LAN12:08:0812/25/97 Hello Gilles! Monday December 22 1997 08:45, Gilles Hemberg wrote to All: GH> each 3 minutes). When I unplug the Win95 system from the network, GH> everything goes fine. When I reconnect it, it slows down again. I GH> suspect NT is sending some kind of data to that system without me GH> knowing it. This is very annoying and I wondered whether anybody else GH> was knowing what this was really caused by... Dedicate an IP address to your computers, every once in a while, Win95 tends to search for one at it's server ... GrtZ, Herwig Scheck .. .. .. /L000 :'ead :'oet `.ociety /L555 : . ... Anything that doesn't kill me makes me stranger. --- FMail/Win32 1.40g * Origin: Dead Poet Society, writing at the speed of light ! (2:292/888) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGZ00000 Date: 12/29/97 From: ROB WILLIAMS Time: 01:31pm \/To: JEFF BINKLEY (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: PROBLEMS WITH INTERNE On Dec 29, 1997 08:39am, JEFF BINKLEY wrote to ROB WILLIAMS: JB> I just checked this morning and I cannot reach www.weather.com either JB> via ping or traceroute and we are an ISP. The traceroute stops at MCI in JB> Atlanta. However, port 80, web serives are getting through. This may be JB> sitting behind a firewall. One thing to remember is that many websites JB> and ISPs are starting to filter a lot of UDP types of functions (i.e. JB> ping etc..). This often makes troubleshooting more difficult. I have found that out....Can you get to them via a browser? I can't get here using ANYTHING....At least not using NT. With 95, it comes right up. Rob ... WCS Software-Quality Internet and BBS Shareware-@wcssoft.com --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: WCS Online!-BBS Doors-Internet-503-631-8439@wcssoft.co (1:105/278) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGZ00001 Date: 12/28/97 From: STEVE READ Time: 06:21pm \/To: GILLES HEMBERG (Read 2 times) Subj: WinNT slowing down a Win95 client in LAN18:21:0712/28/97 Hello Gilles, 22 Dec 97 08:45, Gilles Hemberg wrote to All: GH > I am using NT 4 Server on my LAN server over here. The LAN is a 10 MBit GH > Coax system. The network adapters are Longshine ISA NE2000 compatibles GH > without Plug&Play. The problem is that a Win95 machine in the network GH > seems to slow down from time to time in the network (about each 3 This is probably too far of a reach on my part but this sounds a lot like a problem exerienced with Windows for Workgroups. Is it possible that the Win95 machine is trying to hold an election? Steve --- Msged/NT 4.20 beta 2 * Origin: Gulliver's Travels -- Dublin, IN (1:11/201@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGZ00002 Date: 12/29/97 From: JEFF BINKLEY Time: 08:39am \/To: ROB WILLIAMS (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: PROBLEMS WITH INTERNE RW>->> RW> answer, I decided to re-install Win95 and see if that worked RW>->> (to see if RW>->> RW> it was some quirk in Windows TCP/IP implementation). Well, RW>->> I was able RW>->> RW> to connect to the sites in question just fine with Win95! RW>->> So, I assume RW>->> RW> something must be wrong with my installation of NT. I try RW>->> various RW> DS> You are correct about the NT installation and some routers along RW> DS> the path. What you're experiencing is called "black hole RW> DS> routing". It happens when there are variations in MTU size along RW> DS> the path. RW> DS> By default NT is designed not to fragment IP packets and it must RW> DS> be told to do so. The most common flaw is that somewhere along RW> DS> the route from the host to the destination a larger MTU size is RW> DS> in use. NT servers can't fragment the packets unless a registry RW> DS> change is implemented at the host. RW> DS> You can test this theory yourself by using ping and adjusting RW> DS> the packet size downward from the default. At some point you'll RW> DS> be unable to ping even local routers. Fixes to this issue are RW> DS> posted in URL's at Microsofts site and you'll find them by RW> DS> searching for "black hole router". Sometimes the problem needs RW> DS> to be fixed at the host and the webmaster at each site needs to RW> DS> know the problem exists. RW>Well, I found the info on the MS site (EnablePMTUBHDetect set to 1), RW>but I still have the same problems....:( It sounds EXACTLY like what RW>is happening, but there must be some other problem somewhere. RW>When I do a ping to some of these sites (www.weather.com is one that RW>hasn't work since I upgraded to NT), sometimes I get "destination net RW>unreachable". This sounds like a routing problem to me, but for the RW>life of me, I don't know what the problem could be. My route tables RW>are VERY simple. The only route that I have added manually is the RW>one to enable RAS to route packets, because I have wcPPP installed. RW>I don't believe this is the problem, since my other NT machine is the RW>same way, and it doesn't have wcPPP installed on it. RW>Any more suggestions? RW>Thanks much! Rob, I just checked this morning and I cannot reach www.weather.com either via ping or traceroute and we are an ISP. The traceroute stops at MCI in Atlanta. However, port 80, web serives are getting through. This may be sitting behind a firewall. One thing to remember is that many websites and ISPs are starting to filter a lot of UDP types of functions (i.e. ping etc..). This often makes troubleshooting more difficult. Jeff CMPQwk 1.42 9999 --- PCBoard (R) v15.4 (OS/2) 10 Beta * Origin: (1:226/600) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGZ00003 Date: 12/28/97 From: CHRIS HOLTEN Time: 10:38am \/To: GILLES HEMBERG (Read 2 times) Subj: WinNT slowing down a Win95 client in LAN10:38:3212/28/97 GH> I am using NT 4 Server on my LAN server over here. The LAN is a 10 MBit GH> Coax system. The network adapters are Longshine ISA GH> NE2000 compatibles without Plug&Play. The problem is GH> that a Win95 machine in the network seems to slow down GH> from time to time in the network (about each 3 GH> minutes). When I unplug the Win95 system from the GH> network, everything goes fine. When I reconnect it, it GH> slows down again. I suspect NT is sending some kind of GH> data to that system without me knowing it. This is very GH> annoying and I wondered whether anybody else was GH> knowing what this was really caused by... Since (I assume from the grammar you used) it's slowing down the entire network instead of just the local machine and when you disconnect the system from the network cable, the entire network speeds up, it sounds like it could be marginal cabeling, which is not all that uncommon with Co-ax cabeling. It can be hard to pinpoint, because it might not be the connectors on the w95 system, even though connecting the w95 system up could be causing jabber/cross talk. One or more marginally made up BNC cable connectors can cause this. When you plug the W95 system in, you are changing the "harmonics" of a cabeling system that is passing data on a sine wave. The cables shielding and impedence must be correct or you can get reflections of a different (harmonic) frequency that will dampen the 1st order wave that the data is carried on (your hangs in the network). I'm not an expert on wave propagation on a 52ohm coaxial network, but the phenomea is known as high SWR (Standing Wave Ratio) to truck drivers and ham radio operators who use RG58u coax to connect thier radios to thier antennas. When ever I experience this, I re-makeup the BNC connectors of unit that seems to be causeing the problem (the W95 system). If that doesn't cure it, I move to the next system down the cable from that one, check and remakeing up BNC connectors as I go. Poorly made up BNC connectors can cause exactly the problem you are talking about and can be a real pain in the toot to isolate and fix. Making up BNC connectors is more of an art than a science, which could be why most networks have gone to RJ45 10bt type cabeling which is very easy to make up and is very reliable, even when the secretary re-aranges her office and stretchs the cabel out like a banjo wire so's she can get her computer in it's new place. Co-ax cableing is only cheeper until you start having problems with it. Now if only the Windows 95 system is slowing down when you plug it in into the network and only the windows 95 system speeds up when you take it off the network, then you have a different problem. That would probably be a network setup in Windows 95 problem. In that instance, 95 appears to be going out and intensely looking/polling for something on the network that is not there. That might be a phantom network resource, you might of setup 95's TCPIP to use DHCP and there is no DHCP server on the network, etc etc. Perchance have you ever gotton any messages about 95 not being able to find a DHCP server? The message can be disabled so that you won't see it every time you boot up. IE could be in your Windows 95 Network services setup also. Having Arcada backup service setup seems to cause Win95 to increase traffic on the network every few minutes, apparently in search of an Arcada Backup Server. I don't know if that's -exactly- what Arcada backup service is doing, but I do know that if I disable it, the system quits "sniffing" the network on a regular basis and Windows 95 quites "tugging" at the keyboard every two or three minutes. I don't recall that it ever caused any kind of a significant network slow down though. --- Maximus/NT 3.01b1 * Origin: Cowboy Country USA! (1:303/1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EGZ00004 Date: 12/28/97 From: TERRY ROATI Time: 11:35am \/To: ROB WILLIAMS (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: Problems with Internet co On Dec 26, 1997 08:30pm, ROB WILLIAMS wrote to TERRY ROATI: Hi Rob, RW> Not unless I have proxy enabled on BOTH my NT machines, and don't know RW> it.... If the server / machine connected to the internet had proxy then it might effect both since one machine (gateway) is being used to connect to your ISP assume. Regards, Terry ... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!! --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: The File Bank BBS! Makati. Philippines +63-2-896-3116 (6:751/321)