XFree hangs after first client is started

Harold Hunt huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Sep 18 20:25:00 GMT 2002


Carlos,

Sorry I didn't get back to you, but you did find the explanation in the FAQ.
Basically, Aventail does something to the TCP/IP stack that breaks
compatibility with the standards that Cygwin and XFree86's sockets layers
are expecting.  Aventail replaces a couple of Windows DLLs with its own
versions, thus it does not matter if Aventail is running or not, because you
are always passing your sockets requests through their broken DLLs.  If you
ask me, that is simply a design flaw or implementation flaw with Aventail
and they need to fix that.  You, being a paying customer, should demand that
of them.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Carlos Santiago
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: XFree hangs after first client is started
>
>
> Hello Harold,
>
> I went ahead and checked the XFree FAQ, and found
> that Aventail Connect is, indeed, one of the software
> VPNs with known problems.
>
> I guess I will assume then that a box with Aventail
> Connect will not be able to bring the X server up
> properly even for local use.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Carlos
>
>



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