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Re: OASIS II Problems

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From: gen
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 00:00
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 In article <23948228_Beta04_OASIS_NEWS@nest.demon.co.uk>
  dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk (Daron Brewood) said:-

>>1) BAD Packet errors:- these occur when downloading news, I have tried all three
>>settings of packet size, and also SLIP instead of PPP but errors still happen.
>
>This is the one big bug that is killing Dave, he has coded to the RFC's 
>pricicely, but can;t figure out why this one is generated.

NOS seems to be able to recover better, it does stop from time to time but it
adjusts. I've seen such things as changing MSS size! Rtt is assesed constantly
too, I presume... BTW, what is backoff timer?

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From: gen@irana.demon.co.uk (gen@irana.demon.co.uk)
Subject: Re: OASIS II Problems
Date: 1996/05/26
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