Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!lsuc!eci386!clewis
From: clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Problem with Telebits and Bridge boxes
Message-ID: <1989Aug21.151242.19912@eci386.uucp>
Date: 21 Aug 89 15:12:42 GMT
Reply-To: clewis@eci386 (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Toronto, Canada
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I'm posting this for a friend (eci386!emsdev!rmc, Russell Crook), for 
reasons which will become obvious.  Please reply to me so that I can 
insure that he gets it.  Thanks.

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Has anyone out there tried running uucp through a modem (especially a
Trailblazer Plus) on a Bridge box (or any other serial-to-Ethernet
conversion box)? We are having problems in sending uucp data outbound,
although inbound data seems to work at acceptable speed. The symptoms are:

    We get polled, uucp fires up, connection made through Bridge box to our
    system.
    uucico transfers data into our system, no problem.
    Roles reverse, we try to send files.
    If the files are very small (1k or less, we think), it works.
    However, a larger file hangs up with one of several problems,
    usually a pkcget alarm. Connection dies.

The problem also exists with a Hayes-compatible modem at 2400 baud, although
the same modem works on the same system on a directly connected port.
Clearly, the serial-to-ethernet box is screwing things up, but how?
It seems to work fine for dialup terminals, and uucp works fine as
long as it is acknowledges going out, not data.

Russell Crook

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[PS: we've tried sending very large very binary files *to* them without
trouble, but anything over about a K and a half back the other way hangs.  
Russell is convinced that he has all of the Bridge's "local mode" stuff off,
but I'm not so sure.  Obviously, this is not a Telebit problem, because
an ordinary modem has the same trouble.]
-- 
Chris Lewis, R.H. Lathwell & Associates: Elegant Communications Inc.
UUCP: {uunet!mnetor, utcsri!utzoo}!lsuc!eci386!clewis
Phone: (416)-595-5425