Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Experience with Telebit's NetBlazer anyone? Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 03:04:10 GMT References: <1991Apr10.231552.14835@seachg.uucp> <5730@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: sob@tmc.edu's message of 28 May 91 02:16:53 GMT >> real life experience > software seems a little buggy The site 'ftp.telebit.com' has load images. 1.1 is not yet released; there are beta 1.0 releases out which add some features, remove some bugs, and change some things. 1.13x1 is what's out there now; there was a 1.14x1 which didn't work at al. I'm surprised there's no proxy arp -- the KA9Q software which this is derived from had it all along. Did you try something like "arp add" ? (no manuals here handy to look at, sorry). Late beta rleases have a "telnet -b" option, which is supposed to allow you to get a fully transparent network connection with 8 bit passthrough and no flow control, suitable for doing UUCP through. There are some bugs in a regarding processing of linefeeds or carriage returns that cause it to break, though -- we're seeing either doubled CR or no CR at all coming through. Our only test system is running SunOS, I don't know if it breaks the same way for Ultrix or real BSD. Any takers on testing? We got the box for dialup UUCP as well as dialup IP, so we're in a real pinch until we can use it the way it was intended to work... The nagging question that I have about the system is its performance under load, like how many full-speed PPP sessions can you have going before the 386sx starts to run out of steam. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com