mills@HUEY.UDEL.EDU (01/13/87)
Folks, Mike Petry, fierce swamprat from U Maryland, staggered from the muck waving an ACC 5250 X.25 interface driver in one hand and dragging an awesome alligator in the other. Shortly before he passed out (the swampgas was just too much - he began to see UFOs) he whispered "only ten keystrokes did the varmits in." I rushed to the ooze and tossed a ping raft between dcn-gateway (56-Kbps 1822/ECU 10.0.0.111) and terp (56-Kbps X.25 10.8.0.111) and reeled in 5000 packets of catfish, a possum and two owls. The swamp never smelled so good. Relative to my gruesome scatter plots mentioned previously to the list, the X.25 circuit has much joy. The Sun-format bitmap file is on udel2.udel.edu under anonymous/guest as terp1.bit, should you care to light it up. The max delay was almost five seconds, but only five samples were more than two seconds. The regression line had a y intercept of 32 and 576-octet intercept of 238, for a slop of 22411 bps, about to be expected for the two-hop dcn-gateway PSN 111 terp path. Mike tells me the problem was a simple bug in the driver, so I suggested he set a reasonable price for ransome at just $500 per keystroke. Comes to one 5250, unless you can find a ripoff in Filene's basement basement. I don't know about you guys, but I am mighty relieved and would like to be one of the first to throw Mike a towel so he can wipe off that icky, smelly swamp stuff and take a bath. Dave -------