I only got 2 responses to my post. The pointer to the Web site provided
some useful info on ndd options for /dev/tcp, but not a complete
summary. Thanks to Ken Simpson and Carlos Polanczyk for their replies.
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My original post:
>This recent posting by damrong@suandok01.medicine.cmu.ac.th covers a
>problem I have occasionally with sendmail on a Sparc running Solaris
>2.4. While I'm glad that there is a potential solution, I'm very
>hesitant to apply these configuration changes to tcp without knowing
>exactly what they are doing and how it may affect other aspects of my
>networking. The man pages for ndd and tcp don't give sufficient
>insight and neither does the Solaris TCP/IP Network Administration
>Guide. Does anyone have any info on these parameters? Pointers to
>documentation would be very desirable for future reference. Thanks.
>
>From chaos@best.com Thu Jul 25 14:09 PDT 1996
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>From: Kenneth Simpson <chaos@best.com>
>To: jnapier@soemail.ucsd.edu (Jim Napier)
>Subject: Re: Using ndd to reconfigure tcp/ip
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>Hi - there's a bug in Solaris 2.5 tcp implementation which calculates the
>the time out incorrectly (so the problem appears with remote sites and not
>local sites.) Rumor has it Sun has a patch out which corrects the problem.
>
>-- Ken
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>From cap@santacasa.tche.br Thu Jul 25 14:34 PDT 1996
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>From: Carlos Alexandre Polanczyk <cap@santacasa.tche.br>
>To: Jim Napier <jnapier@soemail.ucsd.edu>
>Cc: sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: Re: Using ndd to reconfigure tcp/ip
>In-Reply-To: <9607251734.AA27346@soeadm>
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>Jim,
>
>In fact, the hole options of /dev/tcp I do not know, but there is a FAQ
>which explains some of them and the problem related to SENDMAIL
>
>http://www.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/
>ftp://ftp.fwi.uva.nl/pub/solaris
>
>questions: 5.17, 5.19 and 5.20
>
>That's all I know!
>
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