archives: freaky problem from Joey Kelly on 2001-12-21 (nolugarchives)

From: Joey Kelly <looseduk_at_ductape.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:58:33 +0000
Message-Id: <011221175833DU.01203@rahab>

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
http://joeykelly.dhs.org
"When Government fears the people, it's liberty.
When people fear the Government, it's tyranny."
-- Benjamin Franklin

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I don't expect anyone to have an answer for this, but here goes...

I'm running SuSE 7.2 on my desktop. I ssh to another machine running 7.0
that serves as my router/masq/firewall, where I connect using vwdial.

I've tried to forward a page in netscape to someone, using netscape
messenger. It repeatedly kills my dialup connection exactly at 21% complete.
I've isolated it to that (I rebooted my router, etc.). I'm gonna reboot my
desktop box, fully expecting the problem to disappear, but anyone have a clue
as to how this could happen?

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Joey Kelly wrote:
> I don't expect anyone to have an answer for this, but here goes...
>
> I'm running SuSE 7.2 on my desktop. I ssh to another machine running 7.0
> that serves as my router/masq/firewall, where I connect using vwdial.
>
> I've tried to forward a page in netscape to someone, using netscape
> messenger. It repeatedly kills my dialup connection exactly at 21% complete.
> I've isolated it to that (I rebooted my router, etc.). I'm gonna reboot my
> desktop box, fully expecting the problem to disappear, but anyone have a clue
> as to how this could happen?

You are using SLIP to dialin, correct ? If so, a situation similar to this was
outline by Stevens in TCP/IP Iluustrated. Certain combinations of bits are sent
and read by some SLIP implementations incorrectly and cause the same situation
you are having.
Jeremy
- --
- ---
\8)=
- ---
bad-magic-number ICQ--100482698
(aka Slink)
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| w w w . e t e r n i t y - t e c h n o l o g i e s . n e t |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
(root@kharybdis)/> e2fsck /dev/sdc2
e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc2

"United we stand... United we FALL..." -- doubt of solidarity

"Feed a programmer... Buy software..." -- ME vs. the Warez "doodz"

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On Tuesday 09 October 2001 04:41 pm, bad-magic-number wrote:
> Joey Kelly wrote:
[snip]
> You are using SLIP to dialin, correct ? If so, a situation similar
> to this was outline by Stevens in TCP/IP Iluustrated. Certain
> combinations of bits are sent and read by some SLIP implementations
> incorrectly and cause the same situation you are having.

SLIP????? Geez, I haven't even thought about that old geezer
protocol in 5 years...

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> SLIP????? Geez, I haven't even thought about that old geezer
> protocol in 5 years...

Would you believe that the "new technology" of NT and Win2k _STILL_ support
dialin via SLIP ?!

Jeremy
- --
- ---
\8)=
- ---
bad-magic-number ICQ--100482698
(aka Slink)
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| w w w . e t e r n i t y - t e c h n o l o g i e s . n e t |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
(root@kharybdis)/> e2fsck /dev/sdc2
e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc2

"United we stand... United we FALL..." -- doubt of solidarity

"Feed a programmer... Buy software..." -- ME vs. the Warez "doodz"

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On Tuesday 09 October 2001 07:59 pm, bad-magic-number wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > SLIP????? Geez, I haven't even thought about that old geezer
> > protocol in 5 years...
>
> Would you believe that the "new technology" of NT and Win2k _STILL_
> support dialin via SLIP ?!

Wouldn't doubt it. The code's already written. Why toss it out?

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Thou spake:
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> Joey Kelly wrote:
> > I don't expect anyone to have an answer for this, but here goes...
> >
> > I'm running SuSE 7.2 on my desktop. I ssh to another machine running 7.0
> > that serves as my router/masq/firewall, where I connect using vwdial.
> >
> > I've tried to forward a page in netscape to someone, using netscape
> > messenger. It repeatedly kills my dialup connection exactly at 21%
> > complete. I've isolated it to that (I rebooted my router, etc.). I'm
> > gonna reboot my desktop box, fully expecting the problem to disappear,
> > but anyone have a clue as to how this could happen?
>
> You are using SLIP to dialin, correct ?

Um, nope. PPP. But I think you might be on to something --- that, or netscape
is freaked and is sending some strange info down the pipe.

--Joey

If so, a situation similar to
> this was outline by Stevens in TCP/IP Iluustrated. Certain combinations of
> bits are sent and read by some SLIP implementations incorrectly and cause
> the same situation you are having.
> Jeremy
> - --
> - ---
> \8)=
> - ---
> bad-magic-number ICQ--100482698
> (aka Slink)
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
>
> | w w w . e t e r n i t y - t e c h n o l o g i e s . n e t |
>
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> (root@kharybdis)/> e2fsck /dev/sdc2
> e2fsck 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks...
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc2
>
> "United we stand... United we FALL..." -- doubt of solidarity
>
> "Feed a programmer... Buy software..." -- ME vs. the Warez "doodz"
>
>
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