Subj : BinkD and MBSE BBS To : Michiel Broek From : Russell Tiedt Date : Sat Jun 11 2005 08:09 pm Hello Michiel. 11 Jun 05 13:23, you wrote to me: RT>> MBSE has a pretty good implementation of BinkP, and mostly it RT>> works very well, I really like the compression between my system RT>> and a Radius system I connect to daily, but I have of late been RT>> experiencing problems, and I have come to the conclusion that the RT>> implementation of BinkP in MBSE is not quiet as robust as that in RT>> BinkD. MB> mbse doesn't do compression with Radius, only with the latest Argus MB> and Taurus mailers. What pobles do you have, timeouts? Yes it does, do compression with current Radius, Argus hasn't been developed in awhile now. RT>> What happens on occasion is that I manage to connect to a feed, RT>> but file downloads do not complete ie. while exchanging mail, not RT>> the 20mbyte file problem we discussed awhile back, but if I use RT>> BinkD to connect to the problem feed, it manages to download the RT>> files or exchange mail, it just seems to be a little more RT>> persistent and possibly it does not time out as fast/soon as MBSE. MB> Timeouts it is. I have seen that these Radius mailers can be really MB> slow sometimes. Still, mbse uses a timeout of 3 minutes per frame or MB> other state change. My feeling as well, ie. that it is possibly timeouts, that causes this ... RT>> The quality of my internet connection, leaves a great deal to be RT>> desired on occasion. For the last 2 days, I have been unable to RT>> connect to the 2 systems I poll in Europe, my guess is DNS is RT>> temporally right royally screwed, last week, I could not poll Bob RT>> Seaborn or Janice Kracht in the USA for a 24 hour period. MB> No problems here. You are lucky .... RT>> Internet conditions are not very good here most of the time, but RT>> on odd occsions it flies ... MB> They are a lot better here. Last connect with Z3 I had the files MB> transfered over 50 Kbps. Easily 10x faster than my best connect ever ... RT> MB>> Then you may also need to find out a way that only one of RT> MB>> these mailers will make the calls. RT>> RT>> Well, only problems I have had, is when BinkD exits irregularly, RT>> and leaves an *.ilo file behind, then MBCICO repeatedly poll the RT>> node BinkD was busy with before it was stopped, usually because I RT>> pressed CTRL-C to exit from BinkD. MB> I don't think binkd knows what a .ilo file is. Possible .... MB> There are good tools to do that. I have used it here. Everything MB> started from cron, and when mbcico was ready sending and polling it MB> took the connection down. Yeah, I just need to figure out how to have the IP-Cop box here dial-out, and drop the connection via a script, over the network, it has dial-on-demand option or manual option, dial-on-demand I will not use, possible cost implications are too great ... Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .