Subj : zmodem transfers failing
To   : Deon George
From : Vince Coen
Date : Fri Sep 21 2018 03:38 pm

Hello Deon!

Wednesday September 19 2018 09:57, you wrote to me:

 > On 09/18/18, Vince Coen said the following...
 VC>> Some areas to look at - Check the log files in debug (you will
 VC>> need to set up mbse it maximise reporting) and error.

 > Thanks Vince,

 > This had me stumped for a while - I had full verbose logging on and I
 > was trying to read the source to see what it was trying to do.

 > I did get it working, I changed it from fido:// to telnet:// and it
 > worked a treat. I was suspecting that MBSE was not calculating the
 > checksum - possibly because fido:// over TCP is by definition
 > reliable? Anyway, using EMSI over telnet was the thing.

You have lost me on this one :(
Do not understand the usage of fido - telnet etc but I do not have telnet
installed any more only use ssh - Security issues with telnet as it has no
security.


 > MBSE didnt like the packets it got back:
 > ? 19-Sep-2018 19:53:38 mbfido[45] Could not read header (46F05668.PKT)
 > ? 19-Sep-2018 19:53:38 mbfido[45] bad packet header, aborting

Now this I can relate to as I get bad packets from my up link almost weekly.

I just delete them.

 > But that will be the next thing to look at :)

Let me know the results of your examinations as it might relate.



Vince

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