Text 277, 101 rader
Skriven 2005-06-13 20:07:52 av Michiel Broek (2:280/2802)
    Kommentar till text 273 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: Re: BinkD and MBSE BBS
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Hi Russell,

Russell Tiedt wrote to Michiel Broek:
RT> Hello Michiel.
RT> 
RT> 11 Jun 05 13:23, you wrote to me:
RT> 
RT>  RT>> MBSE has a pretty good implementation of BinkP, and mostly it
RT>  RT>> works very well, I really like the compression between my system
RT>  RT>> and a Radius system I connect to daily, but I have of late been
RT>  RT>> experiencing problems, and I have come to the conclusion that the
RT>  RT>> implementation of BinkP in MBSE is not quiet as robust as that in
RT>  RT>> BinkD.
RT> 
RT>  MB> mbse doesn't do compression with Radius, only with the latest Argus
RT>  MB> and Taurus mailers. What pobles do you have, timeouts?
RT> 
RT> Yes it does, do compression with current Radius, Argus hasn't been 
RT> developed
RT> in awhile now.

You see, mow I mixed these two again. You're right.

RT>  RT>> What happens on occasion is that I manage to connect to a feed,
RT>  RT>> but file downloads do not complete ie. while exchanging mail, not
RT>  RT>> the 20mbyte file problem we discussed awhile back, but if I use
RT>  RT>> BinkD to connect to the problem feed, it manages to download the
RT>  RT>> files or exchange mail, it just seems to be a little more
RT>  RT>> persistent and possibly it does not time out as fast/soon as MBSE.
RT> 
RT>  MB> Timeouts it is. I have seen that these Radius mailers can be really
RT>  MB> slow sometimes. Still, mbse uses a timeout of 3 minutes per frame or
RT>  MB> other state change.
RT> 
RT> My feeling as well, ie. that it is possibly timeouts, that causes this ...

When I start it on a Windows box, it reacts slow. Also session setup takes a
while and when you consider I run the testsystems with an almost empty
outbound I can imagine that on a somewhat larger systen it can be really
slow.

RT>  RT>> The quality of my internet connection, leaves a great deal to be
RT>  RT>> desired on occasion. For the last 2 days, I have been unable to
RT>  RT>> connect to the 2 systems I poll in Europe, my guess is DNS is
RT>  RT>> temporally right royally screwed, last week, I could not poll Bob
RT>  RT>> Seaborn or Janice Kracht in the USA for a 24 hour period.
RT> 
RT>  MB> No problems here.
RT> 
RT> You are lucky ....

It improved a lot the last years.

RT>  RT>> Internet conditions are not very good here most of the time, but
RT>  RT>> on odd occsions it flies ...
RT> 
RT>  MB> They are a lot better here. Last connect with Z3 I had the files
RT>  MB> transfered over 50 Kbps.
RT> 
RT> Easily 10x faster than my best connect ever ...

It looks like that.

RT>  RT>  MB>> Then you may also need to find out a way that only one of
RT>  RT>  MB>> these mailers will make the calls.
RT>  RT>>
RT>  RT>> Well, only problems I have had, is when BinkD exits irregularly,
RT>  RT>> and leaves an *.ilo file behind, then MBCICO repeatedly poll the
RT>  RT>> node BinkD was busy with before it was stopped, usually because I
RT>  RT>> pressed CTRL-C to exit from BinkD.
RT> 
RT>  MB> I don't think binkd knows what a .ilo file is.
RT> 
RT> Possible ....
RT> 
RT>  MB> There are good tools to do that. I have used it here. Everything
RT>  MB> started from cron, and when mbcico was ready sending and polling it
RT>  MB> took the connection down.
RT> 
RT> Yeah, I just need to figure out how to have the IP-Cop box here dial-out, 
RT> and
RT> drop the connection via a script, over the network, it has dial-on-demand 
RT> option or manual option, dial-on-demand I will not use, possible cost 
RT> implications are too great ...

Dial on demand is dangerous. I used to use some tools that ran over the
network. On the dialup box was a daemon running. It worked with Linux and
Windows clients including clients that could be used in a script. The client
was called mclient. I see that I still have the example script in the faq.



    Greetings, Michiel Broek

Email:   mbse@mbse.dds.nl
Fidonet: Michiel Broek at 2:280/2802

... It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.

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