"turn Echo off"

[steelio]

Ok I have a problem with some vender software.
We have a frame relay network and ARP does not go between the frames (if that matters)

Well when we run there software the program seems slow. All it does is emulate our mainframe. much like a 5250 applet.
The peeps @ the software Co. want us to turn echo off on these PC's.
My questions are:
Why should we do this? What do we lose by doing this?
And What does echo do for winxp?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[n0cmonkey]

If it's the echo service, it should just echo everything that is sent to it.

 

[steelio]

so basically whatever it recieves it sends out something saying it got it?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: steelio
so basically whatever it recieves it sends out something saying it got it?

Kind of. I connected to an echo service on a BSD machine just to make sure I knew what I was talking about. If I entered the text "hi" into the session and hit enter, I'd see the response "hi". It echoes everything it gets, exactly as it gets it.

 

[steelio]

no what the guy @ the vendor is saying is that XP has echo turned on by default and wants us to turn it off to get better network performance.

 

[tyanni]

if he means ICMP echo requests, as in ping, I am not sure why it would have any effect on the speed....

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: steelio
no what the guy @ the vendor is saying is that XP has echo turned on by default and wants us to turn it off to get better network performance.

Which echo? There's a network service called echo, and something totally different in cmd.

 

[steelio]

We I am not sure. If I were to guess I would guess the ICMP, but like tyanni said not sure that would do anything and that is why I was asking.

Thanks,

 

[steelio]

Ok found my answer. His broad use of the term ment I should have known that it was buried somewhere inside his little program.

Thanks all. I was going down the same road as you all.