Re: Microsoft Mail SMTP Gateway

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From: Michael Borowiec
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 05:27

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In article <1993Jan7.135641.1904@progress.com> tucker@bedford.progress.COM writes:
>In article <1993Jan07.035947.15311@i88.isc.com>, mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
>|> If anyone has gone the MS-MAIL with SMTP gateway route, I'd be 
>|> interested in your experiences so far. Especially...
>|> 
... stuff deleted ...
>
>|> 4) Any problem with the gateway wedging up? If so, any workarounds?
>
>This is where I has the headaches. Initially I had 2 3Com 3c503s in the
>gateway machine which the doc says is supported with either FTP's PCTCP
>or Wollongong's TCP stack for the TCP/IP side. I tried both TCP setups
>and the gateway machine kept hanging every so often, up to 5 or 6 times
>a day. The third supported HW/SW cvonfig was Excelan board asnd their
>software. This has been up for 6 months without a single hang. So I've quite
>happy with it since then.
>
This would seem to indicate that the problem was in the FTP & Wollongong
TCP stacks... since I believe Excelan runs their stack on an onboard
processor instead of the main system CPU... 'Course it could be Microsoft's
fault as they are known to do wanton things with MS-DOS systems programs.
Anyone else?

>Hope this helps, Kyle

Yes, thanks Kyle and all who responded...
- Mike


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