RE: Code/400 communications quality (was Terminal Server(citrixandcode400) -- CODE400-L

I use Win2K and a cable modem.  The office has a T1 (that handles all the
traffic - web site, email, multiple VPNs, office internet access, etc.) The
VPN is CheckPoint. 23 steps from home to office according to TRACERT.
As for the VPN handling errors for me...I don't know.  I presume that a
bunch of error checking goes on as part of the security & encapsulation &
encryption issues.
The fix that made the biggest difference was replacing the network hub that
the AS400 was connected to (now a switch).  According to our pc network guy
the hub was getting "lots of collisions."
Far and away, the problems I have now (not many) are caused by either my ISP
or by the router in my network at home because all of my Internet
connections fail at once.


-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reeve Fritchman
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:38 PM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: Code/400 communications quality (was Terminal Server
(citrixandcode400)


Interesting!  I have a VPN but generally go through my public IP address.

I have three questions: what PC O/S, do you think your VPN traps errors, and
how many Internet hops do you have between WI and CA?

There's one reason I trash EVFCTCPD.EXE without qualification: I have
problems using CODE all over the U.S. and Canada (with a ThinkPad and a
current version of Win2K).  It crashes on dial-up; it crashes on cable
modem.  It crashes on my desktop (always through the cable modem).  There
are a couple of possibilities left: it's my connection into my iSeries in
Nashville (partial T1, router, etc.), it's something in the iSeries itself,
or somehow I've bollixed up several instances of CODE.  At some point I'll
beat on another iSeries with CODE to see if it's Nashville-specific.

-rf

-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Larry Paque
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 1:58 PM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: Code/400 communications quality (was Terminal Server
(citrixand code400)


Just so folks don't think that Reeve's experience is completely universal, I
would like to throw my $.02 in about using Code/400 remotely.

I have been working daily from WI over a cable Internet-VPN connection to my
office in CA for over a year.  When I have had a failure, the underlying
cause has been the network or firewall, not the communications daemon.
Since fixing those underlying problems, the communication failures are
almost non-existant.  This has been true for both 5.1 and 4.0.

Absolutely I wish Code400 handled the failures better when they occur, but I
see that as a separate issue.


-----Original Message-----
From: code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:code400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reeve Fritchman
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 10:23 AM
To: CODE/400 Discussion & Support
Subject: RE: Terminal Server (Citrix) and Code/400


I've been told the communications daemon (EVFCTCPD.EXE: despised throughout
the universe and the worst piece of comm software I've been force to use in
29 year of midrange experience; my comm-related failure rate over an
Internet WAN is 11.7%: 119 failures in 1,017 attempts) "will be replaced" by
the RSE communications manager...and I remember being unhappy about the
schedule date.