According to Charles R. Buchanan: While burning my CPU.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 1999 1:37 AM
> Subject: Re: More newbie dumb questions
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> >According to Michael: While burning my CPU.
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> >> In doing more test. Thanks to everyone who has responded.
> >> When I do a ifconfig eth0 I notice that the dropped packets is very high.
> >> So what it seems to me is that nothing is getting out of the eth0 port.
> >> however the stats on ifconfig eth0 to say that the card is configured
> >> properly and is up and running.
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> >If the routes are correct;
> >One possable cause could be a mismatch in MTU between machines causing
> >fragmentation of packets, make sure the MTU is the same on both machines.
> >Default is normaly MTU=1500 on linux machines.
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> >On another note, your mail editor does not line wrap, your message was on
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> >line and was more than 200 chars long.
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> His message came through ok here! :-)
I can assure you it did not come thro' ok with you, let me explain.
Most mail programs use external pagers to read mail, programs like 'less or
more', they will cut a line at around 70 chars, indipendant of the mail
containing line feeds or C/R's, leading you to belive the mail is all nice
and dandy. This particular message looked perfectly normal when i read it,
i use less as my pager, so this proves that the pager is tricking you to
belive it came thro' ok with you.
If you send a reply to that message you will then use the editor spesified
by yourself in the mailer program you use, or use its default, normaly that
would be, pico (with pine) vi (with elm), thats when you discover that the
message is not at all so "fine and dandy", in this case, all on one line.
I use elm and have joe defined as my editor, which shows a message "as is"
and does not add any line feeds to the opened file. I could of course work
around that sort of problem here, however its much beter to "cure" the
problem at its origin, hence my comment about it all being on one line like
it was.
I hope you now see what i mean.
Netscape mail for example is renowned for NOT wrapping lines at 78 chars,
by default, or thats the way it used to be.
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Regards Richard.
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