[comp.sys.hp] Kermit performance

R.Thirlby@lut.ac.uk (Rob Thirlby) (03/19/91)

performance of kermit has been spastic in the extreme.  Over
a pad connection to the HP-UX X.29 server input is restricted
to 1 packet/second or so.  Over a telnet connection (from our
Gandalf PACX2000/starmaster) we can only get it to work at all
with tiny packet size eg 20 bytes.

These symptoms apply in various forms with the release HP kermit and 
with C-kermit compiled for the HP.

Has anyone similar or contrary expeience or relevant advice???

Yours,

Rob Thirlby, rob@lut.ac.uk

hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (03/22/91)

I have had almost no problems with the kermit provided with HP-UX
7.0:
C-Kermit, 4E(072) 24 Jan 89, HP 9000 Series HP-UX
There are newer kermits around,  e.g., on my NeXT from which I am 
logged in:
C-Kermit 5A(165) ALPHA, 20 Jan 91, NeXT Mach 2.0,
which has some extra features (packets up to 9600 being the main
distinction, but also block 5 checking).
I have used HP-Kermit extensively via a modem with packets up to 2400
bytes.   Only one failure so far -- on an 11 MB tar-file it (or the
network server) timed out after about 18 hours!
No experience with kermit over telnet: I usually prefer the fasster
ange-ftp (under emacs), or rcp, when possible.


Hardy 
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