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Conference abbott::teamlinks_windows

Title:TeamLinks for Windows
Notice:Kit and ECO locations: See replies to note 8.o note 8.
Moderator:ORION::chayna.zko.dec.com::tamara::eppesAN
Created:Mon Aug 28 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2238
Total number of notes:9650

1899.0. "New Mail Notification Polling errors" by AIMTEC::LUCAS_A () Tue Jan 07 1997 09:07

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1899.1Updating the Note!!!!AIMTEC::LUCAS_ATue Jan 07 1997 10:339
1899.2need log to tell what the error isXANADU::qwert.zko.dec.com::mcclungJohn McClung, 381-2774Thu Jan 09 1997 13:2232
1899.3Log file for error from another siteOASS::ANDRES_BWed Feb 26 1997 11:2630
    John,
    
    Another site has reported this error.
    
    They are using TCP/IP as their transport.  ALL-IN-1 is the server.
    The following is a log file from the PC experiencing this error.
    Please advise further what we should do.
    
    We enabled logging on the PC experiencing the problem with TL New Mail
    Notification.  The user mailed me the following info this morning:
    
    
    >Pat,
    >
    >The network polling error message was on my screen this
    >morning, so I checked the cfc log file we had discussed
    >yesterday.  Here is the text of this log file:
    >
    >**** CFC started Tue Feb 25 15:25:12 1997 ****
    >WINSOCK error: select( ) = 10050
    >XTI Return code = 27
    >
    >I have saved a copy of this file.
    
    Any additional help would be appreciated.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Beth Andres
    
1899.4Winsock is detecting a network errorXANADU::qwert.zko.dec.com::mcclungJohn McClung, 381-2774Wed Feb 26 1997 12:4329
Beth,

WINSOCK error: select() = 10050 is described in the Winsock documentation as 
follows:

   WSAENETDOWN	ENETDOWN	10050
   As in BSD.  This error may be reported at any time if the Windows Sockets
   implementation detects an underlying failure.

This is a low level TCP/IP protocol error, which I'm told that TeamLinks (or any 
other application) could not cause (even if it tried). It seems to indicate
network/config problems. 

A couple questions. 

1. What operating system, and Winsock (Windows 95 with Microsoft's TCP/IP?) are 
they using? What TeamLinks version?

2. How many users experience this problem? How frequently? Only with new mail 
notification, or do they also occasionally get disconnected in Infoman?

3. When the new mail notification error occurs, can they immediately restart it 
and have it working again (get notifications)?

Since this error is occurring in Winsock I'm not particularly optimistic about 
being much help with this. I don't know how to pinpoint whatever the "underlying 
failure" that Winsock is detecting is. 

John
1899.5Info from customerOASS::ANDRES_BThu Feb 27 1997 10:0136
    John,
    
    Below are the answers from the customer.
    
    1. What operating system, and Winsock (Windows 95 with Microsoft's
    TCP/IP?) are they using? What TeamLinks version?  
    
            **Windows 95 with Microsoft TCP/IP stack                     
            **TeamLinks 2.7 
                                                            
    2. How many users experience this problem? How frequently? Only with
    new mail notification, or do they also occasionally get disconnected 
    in Infoman?  
    
            **Only one user has reported the problem. 
            **Happens 2-3 times a day.  User reports he almost always
            **sees the error on his screen when he arrives in the morning. 
            **User reports no problems when using INFOMAN, and he uses
            **INFOMAN several times throughout the day.  
                               
    3. When the new mail notification error occurs, can they immediately
    restart it and have it working again (get notifications)?  
    
            **Yes, user invokes INFOMAN, restarts new mail notification and 
            **it continues to run properly for a while. 
                                
    Also, the OA$PC_NOTIFY log has the following error recorded for the
    user.  However, this error is recorded numerous times for all users
    and I think is indicative of a PC that's powered off or not running 
    New Mail Notification. 
    
        26-FEB-1997 08:10:17.68 ************ ************************               
        Error occurred notifying node SAGARM using transport T with
    message: New ALL-IN-1 mail for SAGARM from Rajan %X22C)
    %SYSTEM-F-TIMEOUT, device timeout                                               
                                         
1899.6more info on WSEENETDOWN errorXANADU::16.29.16.107::xanadu::mcclungJohn McClung, 381-2774Fri Feb 28 1997 21:1744
Beth,

I've included some info on this particular Winsock error. It appears that it 
make indicate a hardware problem. Can the user suggestions listed below help 
any? Anyone out there with any Winsock knowledge please jump in.

If this is only happening for one user, maybe their PC's network adaptor is 
flaky. I can't really do any more than guess at this point. 

John

WSAENETDOWN (10050) Network is down. 

Berkeley description: A socket operation encountered a dead network. 

WinSock description: Same as Berkeley. As you can see from the comprehensive 
list of WinSock
functions, this error is the catch-all. When it occurs, it could indicate a 
serious failure of your
network system (i.e. the protocol stack that the WinSock DLL runs over). 

User suggestions: Check your WinSock, protocol stack, network driver and 
network interface
card configuration. Note that this error occurs rarely since a WinSock 
implementation cannot
reliably detect hardware problems. 

WinSock functions: accept(), bind(), closesocket(), connect(), 
gethostbyaddr(), gethostbyname(),
gethostname(), getpeername(), getprotobyname(), getprotobynumber(), 
getservbyname(),
getservbyport(), getsockname(), getsockopt(), ioctlsocket(), listen(), recv(), 
recvfrom(), select(),
send(), sendto(), setsockopt(), shutdown(), socket(), WSAAsyncGetHostByAddr(),
WSAAsyncGetHostByName(), WSAAsyncGetProtoByName(),
WSAAsyncGetProtoByNumber(), WSAAsyncGetServByName(), WSAAsyncGetServByPort(),
WSAAsyncSelect(), WSACancelAsyncRequest(), WSACancelBlockingCall, 
WSACleanup(),
WSASetBlockingHook(), FD_ACCEPT, FD_CLOSE, FD_OOB, FD_READ, FD_WRITE 

Additional functions: All functions capable of failing can fail with this 
error. A couple functions that
the v1.1 specification missed are WSASetLastError() and 
WSAUnhookBlockingHook().