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Conference lassie::ucx

Title:	DEC TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS
Notice:	Note 2-SSB Kits, 3-FT Kits, 4-Patch Info, 7-QAR System
Moderator:	ucxaxp.ucx.lkg.dec.com::TIBBERT

Created:	Thu Nov 17 1994
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5568
Total number of notes:	21492

5519.0. "lpd big files are not printed" by BARNA::DSMAIL () Fri May 16 1997 03:18

    I have a customer who's having problems with lpd, ucx v3.3 eco 4.
    When he sends printing a big job (140.000blocks) it's not printed and
    nothing is at the log file.
    The sequence is:
    	-Copies the file to the spool directory, in this moment if we see
    the status of the queue it's processing, when the copy is finished
    the queue becomes in holding state and the sequence starts again, the
    file is copied again to the spool directory and the file never becomes
    printed.
    Smaller jobs are well printed, what's happening?
    Any ideas?
    Thanks is advanced
    
    Amalia Mart�n

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5519.1 TCP idle timeout expiration GIDDAY::TAN Mon May 19 1997 00:16 16

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5519.1	TCP idle timeout expiration	GIDDAY::TAN		`Mon May 19 1997 00:16`	16
	Sounds suspiciously like the problem where UCX established a TCP connection to the remote LPD server, then started reading the print file, but by the time it has finished processing the job, the TCP connection has timed out! If this is the case, then there are 2 solutions: a) set the idle timeout on the LPD server (eg, HP Jetdirect card) to some larger value, say 90 seconds, this would give the UCX/LPD client a fighting chance of finishing processing the job; b) the order of things has changed in the later UCX, with ECO, now the TCP connection is only established after the job has been processed, so no danger of timing out the TCP link. /David

	Sounds suspiciously like the problem where UCX established a TCP
connection to the remote LPD server, then started reading the print file,
but by the time it has finished processing the job, the TCP connection
has timed out!

	If this is the case, then there are 2 solutions:

	a) set the idle timeout on the LPD server (eg, HP Jetdirect card) to
	   some larger value, say 90 seconds, this would give the UCX/LPD
	   client a fighting chance of finishing processing the job;

	b) the order of things has changed in the later UCX, with ECO, now
	   the TCP connection is only established after the job has been
	   processed, so no danger of timing out the TCP link.

/David