[nos-bbs] Info - is your JNOS crashing every 4 minutes ? NETROM !

[maiko at pcs.mb.ca]

Interesting little discovery,

I will fix this, but in the meantime ...

IF you have a JNOS executable AND the NETROM code is
included, AND you are getting NETROM or INP3 broadcasts
on one of your interfaces, BUT you have NOT done an
'attach netrom' in your autoexec.nos, then be prepared
to see your JNOS crash each time a broadcast comes in.

If you are interfaced to an Xnet system, that can cause
a crash almost every single minute !!!

>From time to time, I've seen posts where people are saying
that their JNOS is crashing repeatedly over and over. Well,
this could be something to check out.

The quick fix to stop the repeated crashes is to 'attach netrom',
and leave it at that. The code never did check to see if the netrom
interface is attached or not, when a broadcast comes in :-(

Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM