Re: SNA reliability above DLC

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From: Nick Gimbrone
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1988 00:26

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It certainly is a bad idea (in my opinion) to 'count' on the reliability
of the data link layer. A few years back we spent months discovering
that a set of our modems had a failure mode which allowed bad data to
be passed by the bisync CRC check being used in the 3705s.

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From: NJG@CORNELLA.BITNET (Nick Gimbrone)
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Subject: Re: SNA reliability above DLC
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