Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cisco terminal server
Message-ID: <1989Jun6.031750.29137@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <3442@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <1989Jun5.162118.10240@utzoo.uucp> <3449@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 89 03:17:50 GMT

In article <3449@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>>Transparency problems can be very data-specific. [...]Don't assume that you
>>can get away with it in future just because you got away with it in the past.
>
>Yeah, thanks for the sermon.

You're welcome.  No charge. :-)

Seriously, this is a real problem that I and others have encountered in
the field:  somebody tests his "transparent" channel with one or two
simple test files and assumes it works, and it does, until the right
data pattern comes along... at which time anything from a crash/reboot
to a hung channel occurs.  And occurs again.  And again.  And again.
It may sound so dumb that nobody would ever do it; not so.
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