On Tue, 14 May 2002, at 1:48am, John P. Hoekstra wrote: > I am having TCP/IP connectivity problems with seemingly random hosts on > the internet.
I have seen a problem like that when one of our customers had a data-dependent problem in the frame relay line feeding their mail server. It worked out that they were sending email attachments that, when encoded as MIME BASE64, contained long strings of the capital letter 'A', which, in standard ASCII, has the bit pattern 10000001. Whenever a packet full of that sequence went out on the wire, the frame would be dropped. After much complaining, the ISP looked into it, found a problem, and fixed it. Try using your packet sniffer to dump the contents of the packets, and look for patterns. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
