Re: Phantom telnet connections

From: John Gemignani, Jr. (john_at_nfw-invalid.cibtrikker.com)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:56:23 -0400

Do you see actual connections on there, or just devices? The TN driver has
a QIO interface for management (i.e. TELNET SHOW DEVICE) as well as an
interface from the INETACP (In V5.0 I did away with the old "cloak and
dagger" interface that required all sorts of knowledge of TNDRIVER
internals). You will therefore see a bunch of unconnected TN devices
lingering for up to a minute, I believe. Now, there were a few bugs
introduced in some changes in the code that caused devices to linger either
longer or permanently. If you can move forward with your TCPIP version ...

Something that some people don't realize ... 5.1 (.2 which I don't think
anyone saw) and 5.3 ... while claimed that it requires 7.3+ to run, is
actually built against a 7.2-2 build environment (I know, because I put this
environment together). I need to verify this as a fact next week when I am
back from vacation, but I think this is indeed that case.

-John

"Jack Pea***" <pea***@simconv.com> wrote in message
news:XrqdnTrmFY_aGo_cRVn-tQ@mpowercom.net...
> The environment is VMS 7.2-1H1, TCP/IP V5.0A ECO 3. When I do a SHOW
> SERVICE TELNET/FULL it displays a session limit of 50, and 48 active.
> However, a SHOW SYS indicates only 17 users are logged in with telnet.
What
> causes the phantom connections to persist, and how can I get rid of them
> without rebooting or restarting telnet?
> Jack Pea***
>
>