intermachine "talk" problems

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3 total messages Started by James P. Kiely Tue, 21 Oct 1986 22:18

#1707

Author: James P. Kiely
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1986 22:18

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Subject: intermachine "talk" problems
Index:	ucb/talk

Type:	bug
Priority: low

Description:
	When attempting to ``talk'' from localhost to remotehost,
	it loops while checking for an invitation in the "ctl_transact"
	called by "look_for_invite" with nready always == 0.

	When attempting to ``talk'' from a remotehost to the localhost,
	the following message keep printing on the console:
Talkd: Send: Address family not supported by protocol family(47).
	I assume this is a kernel message because I cannot find it in
	the source for talkd and I cannot redirect the message to a file.

	BTW: localhost is Motorola 68K based, remotehost is a VAX but I
	     don't believe byte swapping is the answer.

Repeat-By:
	does it every time
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Re: intermachine "talk" problems

#1708

Author: Greg Woods
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1986 17:25

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 We have also seen the infinite "invitation check" and "protocol family not
supported" (the latter on the console) messages when trying to talk between
machines. Our VAX will talk to anyone, but we have some 68K based Integrated
Solutions machines (all running 4.2BSD) that will only talk to each other
and will not talk to the VAXes or the Pyramids. A fix won't help us much,
however, as we don't have sources on the I.S. systems, only on the VAXes.
I already tried bringing over the sources for talk and talkd from the VAXes
and recompiling them on the I.S. machines, but it doesn't change the behavior.

--Greg

Re: intermachine "talk" problems

#1713

Author: Jordan Hayes
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1986 08:20

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Isn't this the byteswapping problem, and wasn't it fixed in 4.3?

It runs fine between a 4.3 vax and a 4.3 IS/68020 ...

/jordan

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