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As many of you may know, I'm running a local DMA server for games like GE and such, but every couple of days, the dma server will stop accepting DMA connections. The BBS portion of the DMA server is actually still up, and you can login locally or do whatever..

What I have to do to fix the problem is shutdown worldgroup, load up mbbs 6.25, w/major tcp/ip on, and then shut it down, re-load worldgroup, and then it'll accept connections again.

What could be the problem? Is my network card going to sleep or something? Or could it be some dos config thing, or what?

Malakai wrote:As many of you may know, I'm running a local DMA server for games like GE and such, but every couple of days, the dma server will stop accepting DMA connections. The BBS portion of the DMA server is actually still up, and you can login locally or do whatever..

What I have to do to fix the problem is shutdown worldgroup, load up mbbs 6.25, w/major tcp/ip on, and then shut it down, re-load worldgroup, and then it'll accept connections again.

What could be the problem? Is my network card going to sleep or something? Or could it be some dos config thing, or what?

Are they both running on the same computer?

Worldgroup 2.0 and under run best when run not under windows.

Joe

yeah, mbbs and wg make low level calls and were ment
to have thier own computers to run on.

Well, I had my version of MBBS installed on a hd, the same version that crashed a long time ago. I thought it was mbbs that went corrupt but it turned out that all of the power surges disabled the pc.

So, I copied it from one hard drive to another, one running windows '95. I used the boot gui modification, to boot directly into dos 7.

Then after getting the DMA server, installed it on the same hard drive. So, both versions are on it. The first one in the bbsv6 directory, the 2nd in wgserv.

This morning, it went fine. Until the problem is found out, then I'll most likely just try to set the cleanup time to something around 8am or so, so I can wake up, try it out, and if it's not working, fix it, with minimum downtime.

Malakai wrote:Well, I had my version of MBBS installed on a hd, the same version that crashed a long time ago. I thought it was mbbs that went corrupt but it turned out that all of the power surges disabled the pc.

So, I copied it from one hard drive to another, one running windows '95. I used the boot gui modification, to boot directly into dos 7.

Then after getting the DMA server, installed it on the same hard drive. So, both versions are on it. The first one in the bbsv6 directory, the 2nd in wgserv.

This morning, it went fine. Until the problem is found out, then I'll most likely just try to set the cleanup time to something around 8am or so, so I can wake up, try it out, and if it's not working, fix it, with minimum downtime.

Does it crash durring cleanup? Is it loosing network connectivity?

Can you post the autoexec.bat, config.sys and any net.cfg you are useing? Are you useing a packet driver?

Joe

As far as I know, it's not crashing. As whether or not it's losing a network connection sometimes, I don't really know. It cleaned up fine this morning and was online and working when I checked it.

It'll be a day or two before I can access the system, because I'm working on moving the servers - thought I'd be done today but had more pre-move work (building shelves, organizing the space, etc) that had to be done..

Malakai wrote:As far as I know, it's not crashing. As whether or not it's losing a network connection sometimes, I don't really know. It cleaned up fine this morning and was online and working when I checked it.

It'll be a day or two before I can access the system, because I'm working on moving the servers - thought I'd be done today but had more pre-move work (building shelves, organizing the space, etc) that had to be done..

If you did a netstat when the ports are not working, does it look like a lot of connections are open ? Maybe its running out of connections because its not closing all the connections?

i don't know.. i'll try that and see what happens next time it doesn't want to accept new connections.