[nos-bbs] Explanation of Error nr4sbuf

[maiko at pcsinternet.ca]

Short answer, that message means the netrom 'connection'
disappeared before JNOS had a chance to 'properly close'
it out type of thing. Now we bring this up, apparently
the later BPQ versions have compression and other stuff
in the netrom L4 layer ? I haven't even looked at what
kind of 'support' I need to add for that ...

> That's a possibly ill conceived netrom warning on
> my part. Over the years I have had netrom situations
> that I had no clue was about, so I put in the odd warning
> here and there, but the language could be better, so one
> of my items on my TODO list to deal with, sorry Mark.
> 
> I am no where near an expert on netrom, and the fact that
> NETROM is 'slow' on JNOS (I think it is anyways), anyone
> else have any comments on that ? Perhaps not enough CPU
> ticks are given to netrom processing when it's needed,
> one of the thoughts I have on the topic. That's why my
> INP code is so 'bad' and I'm not sure I'm qualified to
> even rewrite it :(
> 
> Maiko
> 
> On 2025-04-06 11:05, Mark Herson, N2MH wrote:
>> To the List,
>> 
>> Looking through my log file, I found an error condition. Can someone
>> explain what happened? The error and some surrounding context is
>> below. Sorry for the wordwrap.
>> 
>> 15:24:41  K5DAT-1 @ K5DAT-1 - MBOX (k5dat) connected
>> 15:24:43  K5DAT-1 @ K5DAT-1 - MBOX (k5dat) reverse forwarding mail
>> 15:24:43  K5DAT-1 @ K5DAT-1 - MBOX (k5dat) proposal SP N9SEO @
>> N9SEO.AR.USA.NOAM < N2MH $59057N2MH
>> 15:24:49  - nr4sbuf - (info) callback disappeared
>> 15:24:49  K5DAT-1 @ K5DAT-1 - MBOX (k5dat) fwd exit
>> 
>> BTW, later on, the message was retried. The other end replied back
>> that it had that bid already. So, in spite of the error, the message
>> did get through the first time around.
>> 
>> 73, Mark, N2MH
>> 
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