root@xenlink.UUCP (Super user) (07/22/89)
Background: I am running news on a Intel/286 using the SCO binaries - it works well and I have no complaints. I downstream the feed to three sites. Two sites are Telebit equipped and one site is 2400 baud. I have two phone lines into the system - one line is a Hayes <type> 2400 baud modem, the second line has a Telebit. I am using the SCO upgraded versions of uucico, and dialTBIT for the 286. The O/S version is 286 2.2.3. The hardware consists of a 27Mhz (that what they say folks - I think closer to 20Mhz) 286 with 4 megs of 100 nanosecond RAM. Beyond that nothing fancy - the serial ports are on one dump card - and I doubt the ports would run faster than 9600 baud. The incoming news feed goes off smoothly - each day - it comes in at 2400 baud - they do not have anything faster. The Problem: Whenever I attempt to use any spoofing such as the uucp (S111=30) protocal, with the other site at 255 or with me at 255 and them at 30 - I get alarms (usually about three) and then the connections goes away - without news being delievered. We have tried changing - just about every register comb- ination in an attempt to fix the problem - but nothing has worked. The connections are made at 9600 baud. If the spoofing is turned off and the connection is made at CONNECT/FAST (9600) no problems are encountered - except for the fact that the transfer rate goes to about 170 bytes per second. The few packets of news that do transfer when the CONNECT/FAST/ UUCP connection is made usually go at about 870/880 bytes per second and I am happy with that (but only a few make it before the alarms begin). Also I have no problem transferring a straight tar'ed file using the uucp spoofing - the problem seems to be with compressed news files. Below is the message left in mail uucp when the problem occurs: AERROR - (ret == pk->p_rsize + HDRSIZ) PKXSTART ret 0 I have no idea what the above means - I hope somebody does, however :-). Both sites have tried compress (S110) on and off, again with no success. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions - or help with this problem. Thank you. $ who am i $ Terry Cioni, at Xenlink in Calgary, Alberta UUCP: calgary!xenlink!terry Voice: (403)274-4503