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Article #8429Telebit modem problem: buffered data retransmitted?
From: Michael Bryan
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 10:11
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 10:11
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We have a Telebit Trailblazer Plus, with a version from ATN? reported as "GF7.00-TBSA". It is used for outgoing UUCP and cu, as well as incoming logins. We are having a problem wherein what appears to be buffered data from a previous session is suddenly dumped into a new session. As an example, last night I logged into the system from home using this modem. This morning, somebody called out from the system to another system, using the same modem. After a couple of minutes of light activity, the modem suddenly dumped a bunch of text to his screen. The data that appeared was a copy of the end of my session last night. The direction of transmission was towards the remote system, as it was captured by a vi session he had running on that system. This is happening approximately once a week here. It looks like something weird is happening with the modem's internal buffers, where the in/out pointers get messed up and it suddenly retransmits the entire buffer, or a large portion thereof. I saw similar problems on another device (non-modem), which was using ring buffers, and had a bug in the interrupt handling such that the pointers got into a state where it looked like the entire buffer needed to be transmitted, and that's my first guess as to what's going on here. Has anybody heard of this problem with TrailBlazers before? Is there a fix available of some sort? Any help will be appreciated! -- Michael Bryan michael@resonex.com This offer law where prohibited by void.
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