Re: [xfbb] Re: Node-0.3.0 + Telnet + Compressed forwarding?

From: Jean-Paul ROUBELAT (mheduexg.bxaw@hide197.nhs.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 09:21:26 EEST

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    Hi,

    FF is the escape character for telnet.

    In FBB, preceeding the callsign with a dot ".f6fbb" when logging to fbb
    should invalidate this processing.

    73,
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Steve Fraser <cnpq.wpvekp@mark-itt.ru>
    To: <terhi.victor@logonet.com>; <rvyidcm.pviejy@pagetechnologies.com>; Roger Harris
    <ayi@starnetwx.net>
    Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 2:40 AM
    Subject: Re: [xfbb] Re: Node-0.3.0 + Telnet + Compressed forwarding?

    > Hi All,
    >
    > Roger wrote:
    >
    > >the node is adding
    > > linefeed and additional 0xFF characters which are not expected by the
    > > receiving FBB.
    > >
    > I'm not sure whether this is the same issue as you're seeing, but when I
    was
    > writing code to enable my lnxforward package to (so-called) telnet forward
    > to an FBB system, I discovered that the FBB system both inserted AND
    > required an extra 0xFF in the data stream, each time a real 0xFF occurred.
    > Without them, CRC errors occurred. I cant recall if the remote FBB was
    5.51c
    > or Linux back then. This extra 0xFF is NOT part of the X-forward
    > specification, so i just assumed that it was part of the FBB (and IIRC,
    > JNOS) implementations.
    >
    > However, my Linux systems FBB systems always bind to the ports directly,
    and
    > so dont need to go via node. (Both ax25 and tcp ports). An incoming ax25
    > connect to node can then escape off, connect to the BBS, and compressed
    > forward OK, but I've not tried it with a telnet connect.
    >
    > I hope this helps
    >
    > 73
    >
    > Steve
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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