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  • FTN messages to downlinks lost?

    From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to acn on Thu Jan 13 08:39:54 2022

    On 2022 Jan 13 11:41:26, you wrote to All:

    2022-01-13 11:19:19 Packing packet (/sbbs/fido/topoint/61dffca8.pkt)
    into bundle (/sbbs/fido/topoint/0000p001.TH0) for 2:240/5824.1 using
    ZIP

    stop using bundles... in this day in time, they are pretty much a waste of time and cycles... set the point's archiver to NONE in echocfg and send raw PKTs...

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  • From acn@1:103/705 to mark lewis on Thu Jan 13 15:46:10 2022
    Hi,

    stop using bundles... in this day in time, they are pretty much a waste of time and cycles... set the point's archiver to NONE in echocfg and send raw PKTs...

    Although you are right that compression isn't that neccessary today, if the feature is available, it should work like in 3.18b, don't you think?
    But as a workaround, I'll try that.

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From acn@1:103/705 to mark lewis on Thu Jan 13 15:51:38 2022
    Hi,

    stop using bundles... in this day in time, they are pretty much a waste of time and cycles... set the point's archiver to NONE in echocfg and send raw PKTs...


    Btw, I've just deactivated using ZIP archives for my point entries in echocfg and now I can rescan IPV6 and get the lost messages.

    Thank you for this workaround!

    But I guess I still found a bug...

    Regards,
    Anna

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to acn on Thu Jan 13 16:35:20 2022
    Re: FTN messages to downlinks lost?
    By: acn to All on Thu Jan 13 2022 11:41 am

    Since my update to 3.19b yesterday, I think I'm missing some messages on my point system.

    I noticed it, as the number of messages flowing in went down noticably.
    And when logging into my BBS, I saw that someone answered me in the Fido echo IPV6 (on Jan 12), but that message did not appear on my point.

    If I see this correctly, I should get 3 .pkt files, but in the final ZIPped file, only one can be found (see below).

    I think you've discovered a bug in the libarchive integration in SBBSecho: it will always overwrite an existing bundle (archive, e.g. zip file) rather than adding a packet to it. A work around would be to have the point set their compression type to "None" (or you could make the change locally in your sbbsecho.ini file). I'll work a fix as well.
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