Hello mark!

May 17 19:49 03, mark lewis wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>> Ok! Kind a long story .. I'm using Linux and running EleBBS,
 BS>> the transfer protocols in many terminal programs sucks,
 BS>> because they are made for slow transfers..

 ml> not quite... remember, "back in the day" we used a dedicated line 
 ml> between the bbs and us... today, with the internet, its a shared 
 ml> line/pipe... and its also not as direct as it used to be... a packet, 
 ml> today, may travel via one route and the next packet may travel via 
 ml> another route... this all due to the routers talking to each other 
 ml> and updating their routing tables in realtime...

That's right. There are a big difference of a routed realtime net, than a
point-to-point connection. 

 ml> in those days, protocols were written with certain time tolerances 
 ml> built in... if something exceeded the time tolerance, then we resent 
 ml> that packet... with the varying routes and the sharing of the 
 ml> pipeline, it is quite easy for those old timing tolerances to be 
 ml> exceeded... heck, FTP has something like a 10 minute timing tolerance 
 ml> (!!)...

BTW A strange thing i got yesterday.. Then i'm connection to a node over
telnet, with my mailer, i won't make transfers, EMSI info, etc goes very
fine.. but then i connect to port 60177 there i no problem..

Does somebody has a explaination of that?

Regards,
Bo

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