Mailinglist Archive: proxy-suite (16 mails)

[Marius Tomaschewski <mat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:13:59PM +0100, Thomas B?tzler wrote:
> Hi,

Hi!

> I'm trying to port ftp-proxy to Solaris 7, and I'm having a
> hard time getting it to work properly. Using the hints that
> Marius Tomaschewski gave in <20010828115222.B13695@xxxxxxx>
> and some more tinkering on my part (replacing inet_aton with
> inet_addr) I'm getting a clean compile.

As I remember inet_aton was in libnsl... wasn't it?

> The resultant code however does not work reliably - I'm
> experiencing sudden drops of the data connection. Similar
> patches work fine for a build on Solaris 8, though.

I'm going to release a 1.8 version with fixes for all known
issues... This takes some time, because I have other things
to do first (about the next two weeks).

> I don't understand half of the code that's there, but I guess
> that the problem is somehow related to the FIONREAD ioctl in
> socket_ll_read.

That is, what other people reported (see the list archive).

I've both Solaris 7 and 8 media here and will take a look
on this as well as on the compilation issues.

> Does anybody else have a suggestion as to what I could try
> to get this up and running or where I should proceed with
> debugging the problem?

If you have any suggestions, drop me a note.

> I'm building the code on a Sun E250 and testing on an E6500.

That's very good. Has anybody HP-UX or AIX machines?

Bye,
 Marius.
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