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Hello All!

I'm getting bad packets from one of my hubs. I am sending them areamgr request using the %help option, and it returns with the info but is marked as *.bad. Is there a way to tell why it's going bad? A log maybe?

RickV

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To: Richard Vonzel
Re: Bad packets
By: Richard Vonzel to All on Sun Mar 23 2025 08:47 am

Hello All!

I'm getting bad packets from one of my hubs. I am sending them areamgr request using the %help option, and it returns with the info but is marked as *.bad. Is there a way to tell why it's going bad? A log maybe?

RickV

yes, when we have problems we look at the logs.
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To: Richard Vonzel
Re: Bad packets
By: Richard Vonzel to All on Sun Mar 23 2025 08:47 am

Hello All!

I'm getting bad packets from one of my hubs. I am sending them areamgr request using the %help option, and it returns with the info but is marked as *.bad. Is there a way to tell why it's going bad? A log maybe?

Yes, sbbsecho.log (assuming you're using SBBSecho). Also, usually the *reason* for the bad-packet determination is in the filename, when echocfg->Global Settings->Incoming Bad Packets is set to "Rename *.reason.bad" (the default), again, assuming you're using SBBSecho.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Bad packets
By: Digital Man to Richard Vonzel on Sun Mar 23 2025 15:59:12

Yes, sbbsecho.log (assuming you're using SBBSecho). Also, usually the *reason* for the bad-packet determination is in the filename, when echocfg->Global

Settings->> Incoming Bad Packets is set to "Rename *.reason.bad" (the
Settings->> default),

Thank you, that helps.

RickV
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To: Richard Vonzel
Hello RickV!

Thursday July 02 1970 01:16, I wrote to Digital Man:

Re: Bad packets
By: Digital Man to Richard Vonzel on Sun Mar 23 2025 15:59:12

Yes, sbbsecho.log (assuming you're using SBBSecho). Also, usually
the *reason* for the bad-packet determination is in the filename,
when echocfg->Global

Settings->> Incoming Bad Packets is set to "Rename *.reason.bad" (the
Settings->> default),

Thank you, that helps.

RickV
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I have that setup that way for a bad packet, when a packet comes in it's still call just *.bad, not that reason.bad. I'm not sure why it's bad anyways, it a netmail from a hub.

RickV

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To: Richard Vonzel
Re: Bad packets
By: Richard Vonzel to Richard Vonzel on Mon Mar 24 2025 06:29 am

Hello RickV!

Thursday July 02 1970 01:16, I wrote to Digital Man:

Re: Bad packets
By: Digital Man to Richard Vonzel on Sun Mar 23 2025 15:59:12

Yes, sbbsecho.log (assuming you're using SBBSecho). Also, usually
the *reason* for the bad-packet determination is in the filename,
when echocfg->Global

Settings->> Incoming Bad Packets is set to "Rename *.reason.bad" (the
Settings->> default),

Thank you, that helps.

RickV
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I have that setup that way for a bad packet, when a packet comes in it's still call just *.bad, not that reason.bad.

What's the exact filename? The "reason" is a variable here and will be replaced with the actual reason (e.g. "pkt-len", "pkt-term", "file-read", etc).

I'm not sure why it's bad anyways, it a netmail from a hub.

What does your sbbsecho.log say about it?
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