FreeBSD and filePro weirdness

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:11:00AM -0500, John Esak wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > telnet and related protocols tend to send Interrupts out-of-band,
> > marked with the TCP urgent bit.  On a high-latency link, this might
> > well result in a BREAK beating a SAVE to the process, at the end of an
> > add loop -- which I assume is what's at issue here.
> >
> > HTH.
> 
> Thanks for the info... but unfortunately, no, IDH because obviously the
> only fix is curing the latency, which, of course, is out of my control.

Well, depending on what you're using for a client, it might be possible
to turn *off* the urgent handling -- if that's actuall the problem, a
sniffer is called for here -- and let the in-band terminal driver
handling deal with the interrupts.

Cheers,
-- jra
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