Re: marinetti+ web server

["geoff" <geoff@a2central.com.remove-b2-this>]

  To: (Wolfgang Kemper)

Your conclusion is wrong.  Marinetti can handle the traffic--I had my IIgs on 
a very chatty network connection 4-5 years ago.  Your problem is one or more 
of the following:

* Ethernet card dropping packets before the link layer reads them
* Marinetti Link layer not ignoring promiscuous datagrams
* IIgs application not polling Marinetti frequently enough.

The only limiting factor that can possible be attributed to Marinetti is that 
it has no option which integrates with the link layer to disable/enable 
promiscuous mode.  But it is probably not a good idea to support promiscuous 
mode on a IIgs in the first place (for reasons that you saw).

I patched the LanceGS link layer to ignore promiscuous datagrams and to keep 
reading datagrams in the LanceGS queue until it has one destined to my IP 
address or until the queue is empty.  This also solved the problem where IIgs 
applications may not have been calling the Marinetti poll frequently enough 
(this is the reason why this should be changed to an interrupt instead of a 
poll, but it is my understanding that the Uthernet would not be able to 
support such a mechanism).  

Geoff

 > Many thanks to all .
 > I have put the iigs behind the firewall and filtered, it works now 
 > flawless.
 > It looks like as it is as some of you have speculated about, marinetti gets 
 > flooded with requests and can not handle it.

 > Bottom line, just open TCP/IP ports and it works.

 > Thanks again to all
 > Wolfgang

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