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From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: PMX dies after a day or so?  Socket problem?  Help.
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:42:56 GMT
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

I've got PMX installed on two machines and I'm having the same problem
(or two indistinguishable problems) on each machine.  The PMX server
seems to choke after a day or so.  This does not appear (but I'm not
entirely sure) to be dependent on the amount of X usage or other
network use - it just looks like bit-rot with time.  Exiting and
restarting PMX does not help.  On a nonfunctional restart, the PMX log
file contains the following ominous line:

	No sockets to listen with; nothing to do.

Any ideas or cures (short of rebooting, which always works)?  Just for
giggles I tried "ifconfig lan0 down" followed by "ifconfg lan0 up" with
no effect.  My gut tells me that something is stuffing up the socket
system over time, but I have no knowledge of what that could be or how
to remedy the situation.

My setups are as follows:
Computers: Gateway 486/33 and 386/33
Ethernet: 3Com 3503 with all default settings
OS: OS/2 2.0 with SP installed
TCP/IP: IBM TCP/IP with latest CSD installed
NFS: IBM with latest CSD installed.  The 486/33 runs both client and
	server, the 386/33 runs client only.
PMX: IBM with latest CSD installed (hence PMX version 1.2.1.3).

-Dean

P.S. If you post a response, please email it to me also, as I'll be
away for a bit and might miss it in the newsgroup - thanks!
--
[NOTE: my email address is different from where I read and post net news.]
Dean Pentcheff  (Internet: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu) (803) 777-8998
Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29205
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Shareware networking solution? Where?
Date: 14 Dec 92 10:20:32 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

ejm@coyote.datalog.com (E.J. McKernan) writes:

>>>Someone mentioned a shareware networking software and I was wondering
>>>if anyone knew what it was and where it was?

Well, I don't know what you are refering to.  I think two products have
been mentioned, OS2You and something called NIC (???).  OS2You is not a
networking solution but rather a Remote Control solution.

>>I would also appreciate any information on such a product. Thanks in advance.

>We are interested here as well. Might as well post replies.

I have considered writing a simple shareware networking solution that
primary would allow you to share disks over the serial line (or perhaps
parallell-port and some LAN-adapters as well).  But I am a little unsure
if the interest would be enough to justify the extensive development time
needed for this project.  I have some ideas on projects to start with,
when my PM2You (Remote Control of the PM Desktop/programs) is ready.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: John.Cocula@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (John Cocula)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Lan Server/Requester
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:17:04 -0500

Quoting from Robert Knier's recent message:

 RK>  Just a very simple question.  I just installed lan server/requester
 RK> (2.0b) on to OS/2 2.0b (from the PDK).  It boots fine, however I don't
 RK> know the username password for the administrator.

USERID and PASSWORD.

John

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: root@splat.aarnet.EDU.AU (Conan the System Operator)
Subject: Re: NE2000 cards and OS2
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:15:25 GMT

becker@vms.ucc.okstate.edu writes:


>I am tring to get a NE2000 clone card to work under OS2.  Every time I run a
>driver for this card the whole machine halts.  I have tried an ODI for
>Netware Lite V1.1, a netbios for Lantastic, and the packet drivers available
>by ftp.  All of these have been tested at a full screen DOS prompt.

>Anyone have any Ideas?

I had these problems too, I fixed them by changing to IRQ3 and baseIO of 
0x320h. The driver seems to work fine now (slow though).

Dave
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 07:31:40 EST
From: Andrew T. Robinson <ANDY@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: SHIVA NetModem/E with OS/2

I've just installed a Shiva NetModem/E on my company's NetWare 3.11
NetWork.  I've been successful at setting up a dialin session, but
am having problems with dialout (only once in about 20 attempts did
any of my communication packages seem to find the NetModem).  It should
go without saying that the workstations are running OS/2 2.0.

I have not completely RTFM, and frankly am hoping that anyone who has
Shive/OS-2 experience will be able to give me some OS/2 specific information
(the Shiva manuals do not even acknowledge OS/2.)

FYI I am using a variety of OLD communications packages such as PROCOMM 2.4.3
and YTERM 1.4 and QMODEM.  Perhaps they do not support INT14 or NASI
redirection.

One fly in this ointment is that YTERM 1.4, the most unsophisticated of the
packages, *did* find the NetModem one time and actually seemed to talk to it
momentarily.  However, it was never successful at dialing and the DOS window
hung up.

Andy
From: hawat@hawat.abg.sub.org (Andreas Kellner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Setting NCSA Telnet to run w/packet driver, Help!
Date: 14 Dec 92 00:11
Organization: APL II Host Augsburg, Germany

sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:

> Just pretend you are using DOS. The only biggie to remember is not to stick 
> any drivers in autoexec.bat. Guess what happens when two packet drivers try 
> to control the same card?
> 
> Now I _have_ heard that some people have been having trouble with it, but 
> I've been happily running NCSA Telnet, POPmail, and Trumpet for months now.
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Maybe a stupid question, but : Where can I get this stuff ?

Thanks


Andy


--

                   Andreas Kellner (hawat@hawat.abg.sub.org)

                          APL II - Beyond the future 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: habke@news.cc.umanitoba.ca  (William habke)
Subject: Re: NCSA Telnet under os/2, Thanks!
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:25:06 GMT

In article <28345@oasys.dt.navy.mil> jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White) writes:

 >> To everyong that sent me e-mail or posted a response to my question
 >> about setting up NCSA Telnet with a packet driver under OS/2, Thank
 >> you very much for your help, I have it up and running!
 >> 
 >> Thanks again!!
 >> Joe White
 >> jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil
 >> 
 >> Now to start saving $ for an OS/2 version

I've been having problems geting sendmail to work so here goes again. Would
anyone who has gotten ncsa telnet working with a ne2000 ethernet board in a os2.2 dos vdm
         session  please tell me what they have in there command line and in config.tel.
When I start telnet after starting lsl.com and ne2000 I get a message that the packet 
         driver is not found.
  thanks Bill

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: res@ulrik.uio.no (Roy Egil Svendsen)
Subject: Re: IBM's TCP/IP and Netware for OS/2?
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:00:06 GMT

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: wfp@Turing.ORG (William F. Pemberton)
Subject: Banyan And OS/2
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:38:16 GMT


Is there currently a way for an OS/2 machine to log into a Banyan network?

Thanks!
Bill
From: cresch@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Chris Resch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Lan Manager and OS/2 2.0
Date: 16 Dec 92 20:45:29 GMT
Reply-To: cresch@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Chris Resch)
Distribution: world
Organization: Stakeholder Relations, NCR Corp in Dayton,OH


Can someone please e-mail or post exactly what I need to do to get Lan Man
working under 2.0 (not in a virtual session).

     I know I will need the following:
           1. NDIS Driver for network card (not a problem)
           2. Lan Man Requestor --> Where can I get this? Is it on FTO-OS2?

     Please note that I will be trying to configure LanManager over TCP/IP
with Wollongong's Pathway for OS/2 2.0 (beta).

E-mail replies are preferred but I do follow the group regularly so post if
you must.   Thanks!
From: tom@piassun1.joanneum.ac.at (Tom Leitner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: latest TCP/IP CSD UN29511 (as of 92/11/16) is corrupted!!
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:48:30 GMT
Organization: Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
Originator: tom@piassun1

I found two files TCPCSD1.ZIP and TCPCSD2.ZIP on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
in directory /pub/uploads. According to the docs in TCPCSD1.ZIP
these are supposed to be the latest BASE CSDS UN29511 for TCP/IP 1.2.1

Alas, the second ZIP file TCPCSD2.ZIP is corrupted and according
to the docs a third ZIP file is necessary anyway.

Could the kind person who uploaded this files try that again ???
I'd really like to get these CSDs.

Thanks -- Tom Leitner
From: John.Cocula@f347.n109.z1.fidonet.org (John Cocula)
Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: AUUUGH!!  NN Keeps d
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 17:40:08 -0500

Quoting from Ian Mercado's recent message:

 IM> When running NN (no news) under IBM's TCP/IP Telnet, I will consistently
 IM> lose about a half a screen of information when the article menus and the
 IM> actual articles are displayed.  I cannot figure it out.  NN works fine
 IM> under
 IM> my other DOS based Telnet programs, and other full screen things such as
 IM> ELM
 IM> and VI seem to work just great with IBM's Telnet, so what gives??

Which telnet variant are you using?  Have you tried VT220.EXE, and have
the TERM env. variable set to vt220?  That should behave.  It sounds like
whichever one you're using doesn't do the correct/as much term emulation
as is required.

John

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.apps
From: rgammon@pan1  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: Re: Anybody installed TCP/IP from PDK1 CDROM (Betadisks)?
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:56:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.065638.3277@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:

 >> I have been trying to try out the TCP/IP applications included in the
 >> PDK1 CDROM of DAP but keep getting error in the midst of reading disk
 >> B-3 (towards the end of it).
[stuff deleted]
 >> PS,
 >> Any one want to briefly tell me how to install Lan Server 3.0? Do I need
 >> to install OS/2 first? Then what before installing Lan Server 3.0? Thanks!
 >> 

For LS 3.0, first install OS/2.  Next NTS/2 (Network Transport Services), and
finally LS 3.0.
--
Regards,
Robert Gammon
(713)-274-3299       (voice)
(713)-274-2324       (fax)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.apps
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: Anybody installed TCP/IP from PDK1 CDROM (Betadisks)?
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.networking, comp.os.os2.apps
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 06:56:38 GMT

I have been trying to try out the TCP/IP applications included in the
PDK1 CDROM of DAP but keep getting error in the midst of reading disk
B-3 (towards the end of it).

Has anybody been able to installed it without much hitch? I have been
using ICAT to install.

.... Hold a minute, this time it is OK? (this is my 4th attempt).
Weird?

So far, I've installed the following from the CD-ROM:
1) OS/2 (32-bit GRE Beta), and
2) Windows 3.1 support,

The above took me almost about 10 tries before I installed successfully.
I never had similar problem installing the real release from IBM.
(The system seems to lock up during a boot if I run SVGA ON in a previous
bootup. Any help? What is the use of SVGA ON anyway? I am using ET-4000.)

I've also installed After Dark screen saver for Windows and it seems to
be working alright although I've not let it run in seamless mode.

If there is interest, I'll continue reporting my experience as I install
more applications from the PDK1 and later PDK2 CDROMs.

PS,
Any one want to briefly tell me how to install Lan Server 3.0? Do I need
to install OS/2 first? Then what before installing Lan Server 3.0? Thanks!

-- 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Wey Jing Ho    Tel: 61-3-573-2567   E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
>Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.networking:2518 comp.os.os2.programmer:7149
From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: IBM TCP/IP: how to get my own address????
Distribution: world
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 20:30:36 MET
Organization: Private

In article <1992Dec17.231259.5806@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>In article <724545243rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
>>If I use IBM's TCP/IP, how am I supposed to get the host name/address
>>of the local system? There is no gethostname() call and gethostid()
...
>>Is it me that I don't see an overly simple solution or is the
>>programmer's kit of IBM's TCP/IP so bad?
>
>Just out of curiosity, have you looked at the new 32-bit TCP/IP
>headers?  They are available in the file PROGCSD.ZIP (I believe) in
>/pub/uploads/sharebbs on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu.  (That's roughly correct,
>anyway.)

Yes, I have those headers. I have also properly called sock_init() but
still get only an error return code from gethostid(). This happens
with MS C 6.00 (i.e. 16-bit) as well as IBM C Set/2.

Kai Uwe Rommel

--
/* Kai Uwe Rommel                                      Muenchen, Germany *
 * rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org                       Phone +49 89 723 4101 *
 * rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de                  Fax +49 89 723 7889 */

DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
handler, and always will be.                -Russell Williams
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: geurin@texasex.nosc.mil
Subject: Re: IBM's "rsh" still broken, what's the story ?
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 02:16:08 GMT

My rsh works fine (CSD 2274).  The trick to getting it to work is to make
sure that the USER environment variable is set in _lower_case_.  ICAT sets
the USER environment variable in all caps (as is the whole config.sys).
Anytime, you run ICAT for anything, it resets the config.sys to all
caps.  Trying to rsh with the USER var all caps will result in rsh just
returning nothing.

Chance Geurin
From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Netware Lite 1.1
Date: 17 Dec 92 12:12:01 GMT
Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK

In article <724299557snx@paradigm.demon.co.uk> john@paradigm.demon.co.uk writes:
>Has anyone managed to get Novell Netware Lite (v1.1) as server and/or
>client running under OS/2 V2.0 ?

Yes, boot a specific version of DOS (DOS5 is fine) and then run the
network startup file. I created an image file with this configuration
and it works fine.



-- 
Michael Traub
BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: starting a DOS session by telnet
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:07:10 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

LS37@UNB.CA (LS37) writes:

>Here's a problem that may be impossible to solve.  Does anyone want a ch
>allenge?

>I want people to be able to telnet to my OS/2 machine and from the
>telnet session to be able to open and use a DOS session contained
>in an image file.  This is necessary so that MS Extensions will
>work.  Changing COMSPEC doesn't seem to work for me.  Any ideas?
>Hacks for the telnet code?

The Telnet Enhancer (TN_ENH) available for FTP from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, will
make it possible to control the DOS session (I think, I am a little
unsure about support for DOS Images).  You might find it a little hard
to START the DOS session though.  Perhaps you could ensure that it is
already started when the machine boots.

Mikael Wahlgren
From: becker@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: NE2000 cards and OS2
Date: 14 Dec 92 04:35:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: vms.1992Dec13.223509.1
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center


I am tring to get a NE2000 clone card to work under OS2.  Every time I run a
driver for this card the whole machine halts.  I have tried an ODI for
Netware Lite V1.1, a netbios for Lantastic, and the packet drivers available
by ftp.  All of these have been tested at a full screen DOS prompt.

Anyone have any Ideas?

Gary
becker@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Michael F. Heidt)
Subject: Re: WINOS2 does not use LPRMON
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:52:46 GMT

I found a couple of things that could make winos2 not talk to lprmon.
First, you must be sure that the windows print spooler is off. Tell the
printer driver to talk directly to the port. The port that lprmon 'watches'
should be a non-real port. I us lpt3: which my machine doesn't actually
have.
Second, if your printer is a postscript printer you have a problem. The
windows drivers put a control-d at the beginning and end of the postscript
file. Many postscript printers, especially Apple laserwriters, don't like
this. Under windos 3.1 there is a way to tell the system not to do it. Under
winos2 I'm not so sure there is. Try installing the driver for encapsulated
postscript. The symptom of this problem is that the file is sent to the
printer, the activity light blinks, or whatever the printer does do indicate
busy, but nothing is ever printed. The conents of the file are ignored.

		Mike Heidt
		heidt@aio.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Vienna, Austria
Date: Tuesday, 15 Dec 1992 22:49:34 CET
From: FLATSCHER Rony <RONY@awiwuw11.wu-wien.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: IBM's "rsh" still broken, what's the story ?

A couple of months ago someone posted in this group that IBM's "rsh" of
TCP/IP would not work properly.

At our site we are trying to backup the OS/2-machines using GTAK's tar,
which even backups extended attributes. As the present implementation of
this GNU tar does not allow utilizing a remote tape via IBM's TCP/IP (A.
Kaiser told me today in a note, that the implementation is 4 to 6 months
away, at least), I tried to follow K.U. Rommel's advice to pipe the
OS/2-tar-output via "rsh" to the tape in question, which resides on a Unix-
machine. He mentioned problems in respect to IBM's "rsh".

Guess what, "rsh" still does not work (have TCP/IP 1.2.1, CSD UN29511). We
get the SYS1805 ("The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.") error
(US version of OS/2 plus golden SP).

What is the story with this issue? The developers should be aware of this
problem for months now and in the latest CSD for the base-kit the problem
still is not fixed ?? This is upsetting !

Being on the issue of bugs. The present NFSD-implementation (CSD 1822) is still
useless. In order to get our OS/2 machines backed up to the Unix-streamers we
tried to attach all OS/2-drives via NFS, which works o.k. but still is not
fast. But restoring from the Unix-streamers to the attached OS/2 drives is
aggravating, timeouts, slow-motion writes etc. It is simply useless!

So what do IBMers suggest ? We desperately need a possibility to backup our
OS/2 machines onto Unix-streamer tapes ! Now. Including extended attributes.

What about FTP, Inc.? We used to use the DOS-implementation, which had a tar
supplied, back in the DOS-days. Does their TCP/IP-implementation for OS/2
allow for backing up and restoring OS/2-machines on Unix-streamer tapes ?
If so, what about extended attributes?

If so, we contemplate switching to that product.

---rony
From: garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Re: Lan Manager and OS/2 2.0
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 23:07:32 HKT
Organization: Global Network Communication Technology Co.

cresch@stake.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Chris Resch) writes:

> 
> Can someone please e-mail or post exactly what I need to do to get Lan Man
> working under 2.0 (not in a virtual session).
> 
>      I know I will need the following:
>            1. NDIS Driver for network card (not a problem)
>            2. Lan Man Requestor --> Where can I get this? Is it on FTO-OS2?
> 
>      Please note that I will be trying to configure LanManager over TCP/IP
> with Wollongong's Pathway for OS/2 2.0 (beta).
> 
> E-mail replies are preferred but I do follow the group regularly so post if
> you must.   Thanks!
> 

Do the following :

1. Get yourself LM 2.1a(must be 2.1a)
2. Install it on OS2 1.3 as server
3. detach it
4. Upgrade 1.3 to 2.0
5. Reinstall LM 2.1a, this time it will know that it is run under 2.0 and
   will only install as workstation. This is perfectly OK. Just remember 
   to put it under a seperate directory.
6. Copy NETPROG directory over from the 2.0 workstation tree to the 1.3
   LM tree

7. Modify your config.sys to point everything about LM to the directories
   of the 1.3 server

8. Remember to disable HPFS386 and replace it with 2.0's HPFS.

Now you get LM 2.1a running under 2.0 as server and it works great. The only
drawback so far is you cannot have local security(because of HPFS386).

-gary


garyng@gnct.com (Gary Ng)
GloCom BBS - The BBS brings usenet/internet to Hong Kong Public (852)4925025
From: GCTHORNE@idbsu.idbsu.edu (Broward Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
Subject: Good-bye OS/2.  Good-bye Lan Server
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:12:44 GMT
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       Well, after almost 2 years, I'm putting in a recommendation to
       convert our OS/2 servers to Novell.

       I really like OS/2, but we're not getting anything here.  The
       ability to access all that extra memory STILL results in performance
       penalties.

       And even that would be okay.  But I'm just having too many problems
       with network applications being written for Novell.  Problems with
       the various versions of CUTCP.  The rest of the campus is Novell
       now.  The cost to convert has gotten too low.  Etc.  Etc.  Etc.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
From: buhr@umanitoba.ca (Kevin Andrew Buhr)
Subject: Re: Why does telnet consume so much CPU time (IBM TCP/IP)
Organization: University of Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:40:33 GMT

In article <HWB.92Dec11172722@machnix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de>
hwb@machnix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de (Harald Boegeholz) writes:

>  I just noticed that telnet (from IBM TCP/IP) consumes CPU time even if
>  no key is pressed and no screen updates are necessary. Could it really
>  be that they do busy waiting on network input or the keyboard?

There's a bug in the original TCP/IP 1.2.1 "TELNET.EXE".  The similar
program "VT220.EXE"--which doesn't provide "line mode"--is also
included with the TCP/IP base product and doesn't suffer from the same
problem.  If you don't need "line mode", use "VT220", and your CPU
utilitization should be much more normal.

If you do need to run "TELNET.EXE", apply the CSD for the TCP/IP base
product available via anonymous FTP from "ftp-os2.nmsu.edu:
/pub/os2/2.0/patches/".  This CSD purportedly fixed the problem.  When
you get a chance, you should probably apply this CSD anyway; it fixes
a number of other bugs.

Kevin <buhr@ccu.UManitoba.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking