[Info-vax] A 5 minutes hang during early stage of a shutdown.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-23 14:55, Paul Sture wrote:
> In article <kdlua8$v26$1 at news.albasani.net>,
>   Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>
>> abrsvc wrote 2013-01-22 12:42:
>>> Ay chance the delay is the same as a DECNet timeout value?  Perhaps an
>>> open network connection is waiting for a disconnect verification?  This
>>> would show up as a wait with no resource consumption, no?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>
>> Possible. I will check that.
>> Doesn't clearly explain why the SHUTDOWN process is in QUEMAN.EXE. :-)
>>
>> Related questions, we don't use any part of DECnet, AFAIK.
>> Hm, what happens if one doesn't start DECnet at all?
>> I'm thinking about possible connections beteeen node names
>> and other system related things. This is DECnet IV, b.t.w.
>
> Since DECnet modifies the MAC addresses before TCP/IP starts you will
> probably have to reconfigure TCP/IP.

Can't see why. TCP/IP uses whatever MAC address you have. If it's been 
modified or not by DECnet don't make a difference to TCP/IP.
What would upset TCP/IP would be if it is started before DECnet, and 
DECnet then changes the MAC address for an already running TCP/IP.

	Johnny

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