RE: Device Naming Using TCP/IP-problem?

[Sannan Solberg <SSolberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this was already responded to but I have found a quirk with the
named devices using Client Access.  We recently had a ethernet line fail
where we had to restart tcp/ip.  When this happened, all of the "in-use"
TCP devices are not used by the system again until an IPL even though
their status looks ok.  When a user is connecting and using the
QPADEVxxxx devices this is not a problem because the system just creates
more devices (until the system value maximum is hit).  When you have
named your device through your session, this is a problem because the
system will not let you use that device.  I even deleted the devices and
still could not get connected.  In order to get connected, I had to
either remove the device name from each Client/Access session or change
the name to something different.  
If all of users had been using named devices under Client/Access then
this would have been quite a mess to get everyone connected back up.
This is something to consider when deciding whether to use the named
device function under Client Access.  Anybody had a similar problem
yet???


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Giusto [SMTP:JDG@patuxent.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 1998 7:48 AM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      Device Naming Using TCP/IP
> 
> I have just started using TCP/IP to access the 400 and have noticed
> that
> it gives me a device name QPADEVxxxx (like when doing passthru).  Is
> there any way to get the same device name each time (like I did before
> using the TCP/IP)?  We have an application that uses the device name
> and
> user id to validate authority and this is going to be a mess if we
> start
> using TCP/IP company wide.
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> Joe Giusto 
> Patuxent Publishing Company
> mailto:jdg@patuxent.com
> 
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