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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> ACE VERSION: 6.4.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#C55A11">Linux, RHEL and CentOS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, if different from HOST:
<span style="color:#C55A11">Same as HOST</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> THE $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h FILE [if you use a link to a platform-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> specific file, simply state which one]:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="color:#C55A11">#include "ace/config-linux.h"</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New";color:#C55A11"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> THE $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU FILE [if you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> use a link to a platform-specific file, simply state which one<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> (unless this isn't used in this case, e.g., with Microsoft Visual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> C++)]:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">
</span><span style="color:#C55A11">include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_linux.GNU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> CONTENTS OF $ACE_ROOT/bin/MakeProjectCreator/config/default.features<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> (used by MPC when you generate your own makefiles):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[What example failed? What module failed to compile?]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> COMPILATION?
<span style="color:#C55A11">NO</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> LINKING?
<span style="color:#C55A11">NO</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> On Unix systems, did you run make realclean first?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> EXECUTION?
<span style="color:#C55A11">YES</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> OTHER (please specify)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[Please indicate whether ACE, your application, or both are affected.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> SYNOPSIS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#C55A11">TCP related issues with ACE/TAO 6.4.6<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> DESCRIPTION:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Step 1 : We downloaded the ACE/TAO source code version 6.4.6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Step 2: We did a build of this version 6.4.6 in our environment (linux glibc)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Step 3: We integrated this ACE/TAO library 6.4.6 version in to our SW application.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Step 4: We were validating our use cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Issues seen:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#C55A11"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#C55A11">When there is a an extern TCP buffer based request that comes to our SW (handled via ACE layer), randomly we see that the TCP request doesn’t get completed with the proper handshakes and the SW application
doesn’t get known to this request. (We confirmed this with the help of TCP Packet captures)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#C55A11"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#C55A11">Also, the source that sends the TCP request, waits for a response from the SW (ACE Layer) that doesn’t come though.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#C55A11"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#C55A11">But we don’t see this problem with the ACE/TAO version (5.8.0). To note, we’ve done the same steps stated above while using the 5.8.0 version as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#C55A11"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#C55A11">Is there a known limitation/bug with the version 6.4.6 with respect to this TCP message handling.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:#C55A11"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:#C55A11">Please provide your feedback on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#C55A11">Note: This problem is observed in both RHEL and CentOS 32bit and 64 bit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> REPEAT BY:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[What you did to get the error; include test program or session<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">transcript if at all possible. ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New""> SAMPLE FIX/WORKAROUND:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Courier New"">[If available ]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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