As the fidoweb grows, I need to up the number of outgoing connections from the 4 that I think is the original setting.

Anyone know what problems can be caused if this is set to -- hmmm -- unlimited (e.g. practically 16 or so)?

I guess the original idea is from the days when most of us had dial-up internet connection, no?

Any ideas about this is welcome.

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Hi! Bj÷rn,

In a message to All you wrote:

As the fidoweb grows, I need to up the number of outgoing connections
from the 4 that I think is the original setting.

With Radius, I'm sticking with eight inbound & four outbound. Someone's gonna have to wait a few seconds. Conrcreta extreta.

Anyone know what problems can be caused if this is set to -- hmmm
-- unlimited (e.g. practically 16 or so)?

Well, with 12 potentially simultaneous connections it's some of a mindf@ck when

you think about it. Poor little Windows probably couldn't take any more.

I guess the original idea is from the days when most of us had
dial-up internet connection, no?

Yep, mine is as from day #1 in Argus + dial-up.

Any ideas about this is welcome.

Any ideas? More beer & prawns!

Cheers,
Paul.

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Well, with 12 potentially simultaneous connections it's some of a
mindf@ck when you think about it. Poor little Windows probably couldn't take any more.

LOL! You're probably right. The "home" version of XP had a limitation of network connections, sometimes dropping one or so connected computers in my home net. Hacked that of course, but with binkp connecting via several ports at

the same connection, I guess even my hacked XP could run into problems.

So I guess I'll stay with the four outgoings for now.

Any ideas? More beer & prawns!

Ahhh, you sure are a good toastmaster. Please give me a small glass of vodka

with that beer.

I don't know if the news about that Russian whiskey class sub, that stranded

on a rock outside a Swedish marine base in 1981, reached you, but ever since then whiskey on the rocks has always been a fun part when it comes to Swedish drinks.

Sinking a glass of vodka into a glass of beer is called a Russian submarine here.

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Re: Number of outgoing connections
By: Björn Felten to All on Mon Mar 31 2014 04:47 am

Anyone know what problems can be caused if this is set to -- hmmm -- unlimited (e.g. practically 16 or so)?

I've run 8 connections for some time, the only annoyance is Radius' keeping separate log files for each connection.

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Hi! Björn,

On 03/31/2014 03:51 PM, you wrote:

I don't know if the news about that Russian whiskey class sub, that stranded on a rock outside a Swedish marine base in 1981, reached you,
but ever since then whiskey on the rocks has always been a fun part when it comes to Swedish drinks.

Mmmm... 1981: I was in a head-spin, woo-ing my eventual wife (Barb) & finally marrying her.

There again, I do recall at least one incident like that. But I thought it was

off Norway.

(BTW. I was gifted one of those floppy [roll-up] keyboards for XMAS, and I'm starting to dislike it immensely. Time to unplug it from the little Dell...)

Sinking a glass of vodka into a glass of beer is called a Russian submarine here.

Wouldn't that ruin the beer? Well, in my case I'd turf the beer and start drinking the vodka from it. 8-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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I've run 8 connections for some time, the only annoyance is Radius'

keeping

separate log files for each connection.

Ah yes, there's that too.

Strangely enough -- despite my 4 connection restriction -- I have all the way up to IP_20.LOG in my log directory. I have no idea about how this could have happened. Most of the double digit log files are single connections with Connection Error in it. <shrug>

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Hi! Bj÷rn,

In a message to Kurt Weiske you wrote:

I've run 8 connections for some time, the only annoyance is
Radius' keeping separate log files for each connection.

Ah yes, there's that too.

Strangely enough -- despite my 4 connection restriction -- I have
all the way up to IP_20.LOG in my log directory. I have no idea about
how this could have happened. Most of the double digit log files are single connections with Connection Error in it. <shrug>

It's infinitely better than the way binkD minces multiple sessions into a single logfile. Radius's IP logs are easily handled in my pre-maintenance BAtch, like so...

[ ... ]
COPY /Y ip_*.log IP-Calls.Log
FOR %%N IN (ip_*.log) DO IF EXIST %%N DEL %%N
[ ... ]

During maintenance, the "IP-Calls.Log" file is posted to a local echo and then archived in a daily ARJ. Simple.

BTW, I do have a BATch that can de-splice a binkD logfile. :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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In a reply from Kurt Weiske on 00:13 about Number of outgoing connec

Anyone know what problems can be caused if this is set to -- hmmm -- unlimited (e.g. practically 16 or so)?

I've run 8 connections for some time, the only annoyance is Radius' keeping separate log files for each connection.

I know that taurus does it also, when I need to look up trouble on a node number, I delete every node number (being they get very big)

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On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, Paul Quinn wrote to Björn Felten:

Strangely enough -- despite my 4 connection restriction -- I
have all the way up to IP_20.LOG in my log directory. I have no
idea about how this could have happened. Most of the double digit
log files are single connections with Connection Error in it.
<shrug>

It's infinitely better than the way binkD minces multiple sessions
into a single logfile.

if you think that's bad, you haven't done much wading into your *nix boxen's logs in a long while... remember that binkd originates from *nix and that's where the development mindset is... this is why we haven't been able to get some requests fulfilled (eg: adding some additional semaphore files for things like freezing binkd for log processing, terminating binkd with a specific error

level for maintence or log processing, and similar)...

Radius's IP logs are easily handled in my pre-maintenance BAtch,
like so...

[ ... ]
COPY /Y ip_*.log IP-Calls.Log
FOR %%N IN (ip_*.log) DO IF EXIST %%N DEL %%N
[ ... ]

FWIW: you shouldn't need the "if exist" there because the file wouldn't be there if "for %%n in" didn't find it to start with ;)

During maintenance, the "IP-Calls.Log" file is posted to a local
echo and then archived in a daily ARJ. Simple.

BTW, I do have a BATch that can de-splice a binkD logfile. :)

desplice? as in break out each session by session id number? how do you keep them in date/time order to make running down the day's sessions easier to follow?

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Hi! mark,

On Thu, 03 Apr 14, you wrote to me:

It's infinitely better than the way binkD minces multiple
sessions into a single logfile.

if you think that's bad, you haven't done much wading into your *nix boxen's logs in a long while...

That's correct. I only have time for reading Fido-related software logs. :) On rare occasions will I go digging in the system logs, and then only for specific (rare) problems.

remember that binkd originates from *nix and that's where the
development mindset is... this is why we haven't been able to get some requests fulfilled (eg: adding some additional semaphore files for
things like freezing binkd for log processing, terminating binkd with
a specific error level for maintence or log processing, and
similar)...

Ah-huh. Absolutely.

FOR %%N IN (ip_*.log) DO IF EXIST %%N DEL %%N [ ... ]

FWIW: you shouldn't need the "if exist" there because the file
wouldn't be there if "for %%n in" didn't find it to start with ;)

For that matter, I could probably just do a flat 'DEL /Y ip_*.log' but I left it in as it works IAC. ;-)

BTW, I do have a BATch that can de-splice a binkD logfile. :)

desplice? as in break out each session by session id number? how do
you keep them in date/time order to make running down the day's
sessions easier to follow?

Yes. Yes. The logfile is already in date/time order, so it's just a matter of

stepping through the log searching for (what I call) ID tags, matched with a "session with" log entry. This is the theory. I'd forgotten that I used to be

really only looking for _outbound_ sessions since I wasn't running binkD in daemon mode then (2001), with the target string being "call to".

Pseudocode:
-----------
PROCESS EACH LINE IN THE FILE
FOR EVERY "call to" LINE
EXTRACT THE PROCESS_ID TAG
FOR EVERY OCCURRENCE OF THAT PROCESS_TAG OUTPUT THE LOG DETAIL
BUMP A LINE COUNTER
LOOP UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF LINES

The guts of the script uses a couple of DOS commands...

[ ... ]
TYPE %TEXTFILE%|FIND "[%ID_TAG%]">%OUTFILE%
[ ... ]

Easy-peasy.

Cheers,
Paul.

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