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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:51:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Nick Fisher <fisher@infopro.spb.su>
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Subject: Re: Serial connections
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On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Nick Fisher wrote:

> Help!
> When I'm working in Internet via modem I see message:
> "/kernel: sio1: XX more tty-level buffer overflows (total YY),
> where XX and YY - numerics.

your dialup application is taking too long to respond to incoming data, so
the kernel is dropping the packets.

What class of machine do you have and what are you using for your dial-out
application?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major