From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 20 12:16:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA05379 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:16:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA05359 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 12:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA26096 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:16:04 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with UUCP id VAA06149 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:16:00 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.5/keltia-uucp-2.9) id UAA16800; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:34:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <19970220203429.NV12759@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 20:34:29 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sbwait hang? References: <87enebeuqs.fsf@murkwood.gaffaneys.com> <199702201632.DAA19850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60,1-3,9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2999 In-Reply-To: <199702201632.DAA19850@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 21, 1997 03:02:14 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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