Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:34:29 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sbwait hang? Message-ID: <19970220203429.NV12759@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199702201632.DAA19850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 21, 1997 03:02:14 %2B1030 References: <87enebeuqs.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <199702201632.DAA19850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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According to Michael Smith: > > there is a sequence of bytes that need escaping (and these occur about > > 4Meg into the linux tar file). The modem is probably dropping or > > corrupting those bytes, and corrupting the packet (this might have > > something to do with the compression software in one of the modems). > > Other packets would still make it through though. > > That's an interesting thought. I once found a Word document that we need to get through a async leased line (with PPP) and that would panic the poor little Sun3 on the other side *every time* we tried to FTP the file. Compressing it solved the problem... -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #39: Sun Feb 2 22:12:44 CET 1997
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