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We're having some rather strange problems with Lantastic 3.0 - network
software. The setup we have is as follows : Lantastic 3.0, Ailanbios 1.10,
WD8003 adapters (driver version 1.09) and Phoenix bios 3.07 in the server.
Server is a rather old Kaypro 286 using MS-DOS 4.01.

The problem we have is that certain operations, especially opening and
closing files and locking files, take really long time (locking can take
up to 1 second per operation). We are not quite sure which operations
are the ones causing trouble, but the main application being run on the
network uses file locking rather heavily and runs  s l o w l y ...

So far we haven't found any cure for this problem which is getting rather
acute, as the usability of software in question is rather poor at the
moment (quite a few parts of the application are almost unusable because
of slowness -> press a key ... wait a couple of seconds ... see action
taking place, and this in part of application that used to work instantly
when we were still using Novell 2.0a :-(   ).

So any information to solve this problem would be really appreciated.


Panu Juvonen
juvonen@niksula.hut.fi