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- Addendum for the stelnet 1.00 documentation
-
- stelnet seems to crash randomly on one system it has been beta tested on.
- It does it quite rarely, apparently randomly, and only while transferring
- 8-bit data from the telnet port to the serial port. It doesn't break
- anything, just halts. The carrier detect watchdog of FOSSIL drivers seems
- to be able to reboot the machine.
-
- 8-bit clean mode and such don't seem to have any effect on the crashes. And
- transferring 7-bit data doesn't seem to crash. So in normal use (using
- stelnet as a terminal to e.g. a Unix system), about the only thing this
- affects is file transfers.
-
- If you're telnetting into a Unix system, running the following C program for
- about five to fifteen minutes (on a 14400 bps or slower link) should cause
- the crash.
-
- *** Begin
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- int main()
- {
- int i;
- while (1) for (i=0;i<256;i++) putchar(i);
- exit(0);
- }
- *** End
-
- I couldn't repeat this on my own systems (a 486DX-50 with a
- NE-1000-compatible network card running Linux, and a 486DX2-80 with a
- NE2000-compatible network card running stelnet, with a null-modem cable
- between them), though. Thus I can't do much to fix it, at least not without
- additional information. I'm not even sure if it's stelnet or some driver
- that crashes...
-
- I would appreciate reports from systems where this bug occurs or doesn't
- occur.
-
- The author,
- riku.saikkonen@pcb.compart.fi