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Re: NOS tcp or ftp bug

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From: Guy Harrison
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00
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 In article <836193626_OASIS_@compuserve.com>
  100710.1360@compuserve.com (Bruno Kozlowski) said:-

>    I found a bug in NOS, trying to set very big "tcp window" buffer at
>64240 bytes (that's mss 1460 * 44). The ftp upload (put command) does not
>work at all with such a buffer. The send process seems to go extremely
>fast, all a 270Kb files goes in 2 seconds... but the server does not
>recieve anything. Tried the classical 11680 bytes long buffer, and the
>biggest but less than 32Kb 32120 bytes (mss * 22) and the ftp put command
>works perfectly.

I can confirm this. As the docs are so sparse it's difficult to tell 
if it's a bug or just an upper limit though.

I found a 4K limit on (iirc) MRU though this is unlikely to cause 
problems in reality.


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From: guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison)
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