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- Path: sparky!uunet!rei2!fox
- From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
- Subject: Re: *** WHAT'S THE BEST COMM PROTOCOL ***
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.200857.8168@rei.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:08:57 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.181829.4391@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> <1992Dec22.062746.21350@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.
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- hcbarth@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Bart Bartholomew) writes:
-
- > However, zmodem is much more vulnerable to line noise.
- >Our lines are often noisy; zmodem gets what it thinks is an
- >abort signal and drops the line.
- > I often collect several files and then start the download
- >(~0400) just before I go to bed. This is rarely successful with
- >zmodem, while kermit almost always succeeds.
-
- I have experienced this as well, but I find that it is generally not due
- to line noise, but overloading of the intervening transfer network.
- Zmodem, being a streaming protocol, will not stop sending data for any
- reason, and this can often overload the communication buffers of the
- intervening terminal servers (if any) between the sender and receiver.
-
- In fact, a secondary problem of propogation delay often develops, in
- which the terminal server buffers up several kilobytes of data which the
- receiver has not yet received, and thus if the receiver finds an error,
- it starts signalling the sender to stop, but the terminal server
- continues to feed the several K of data to the receiver, making the
- receiver think that the sender is not listening, and so it aborts the
- download.
-
- This can all be avoided by limiting the packet length of Zmodem (-l
- opetion), but this also severely cuts the speed advantage of Zmodem.
- However, the ability to restart an aborted download is still very useful
- in this situation.
-
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