On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Richard Sims wrote:

There have been a lot of excellent suggestions on Steve's session-lost
problem.  The only thing I could add is to employ a utility like
traceroute or ping -R to illuminate what network elements your sessions
are going through...which can sometimes be surprising.

  Richard Sims, BU

I agree, although even that doesn't tell you everything. I don't know
how, but our NT guys managed to proxy a TSM backup through a web proxy.
The NT TSM client, and Sun TSM server were physically about 4 meters
apart, and separated by 1 router, both located in Wollongong, Australia.
I got a call from our network guys asking why the TSM server was
flogging the link to London... sure enough, the TSM backup sessions
were going via a web proxy in London!

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
Unix/OpenVMS/DBA
101 reasons why you can't find your Sysadmin:
68: It's 9AM. He/She is not working that late.
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