- From: Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen AT micmac.franken.de>
- To: <discussion AT sctp.de>
- Cc: Michael Mueller <bhu5nji AT yahoo.com>
- Subject: Re(2): [SCTP-Discussion] heartbeat-now viewing the graphic
- Date: Tue Aug 28 19:55:02 2001
- List-id: SCTP Discussions <discussion.sctp.de>
Dear all,
see my comments below.
Best regards
Michael
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e-mail:
Michael.Tuexen AT micmac.franken.de
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001, Michael Mueller
<bhu5nji AT yahoo.com>
wrote:
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I appreciate the question and answer about testing configuration. I will be
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looking into dummynet. I should be able to compile it and run it in a Linux
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environment - correct?
No, it is part of the FreeBSD kernel, so it does NOT run Linux.
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The ASCII graphics below did not appear as intended in my email reader
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because of some local application configurations.
Well, are you using tools from this lovely small company ?
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Perhaps others have the same problem, so I offer the steps I used to correct
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the situation.
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In MS Outlook Express 5.5 I did the following:
You are ...
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Per email solution:
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0. opened a new window for the email (double click on email entry)
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1. email window menu: Format-Rich Text (to allow font selection)
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2. highlighted the graphic in the email
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3. email window menu: Format-Font, then choose Courier, chose OK/Apply
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4. switch back to plain text email format to avoid formatting: select on
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menu: Format-Plain Text
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Voila! Graphics make sense.
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All email solution is:
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1. main menu: Tools-Options
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2. select "Read" tab
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3. push "Fonts" button
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4. pulldown menu "Proportional fonts"; choose Courier
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5. optional: pulldown menu "Font sixe"; choose <size>
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6. push "OK" button
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Now you will read all email in fixed font Courier. I looked for a control
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that chooses fixed font instead of proportional font as the default font. I
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was not successful. THat is why I chose Courier for the proportional font.
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These instructions are for Western European settings in Outlook 5.5. YMMV.
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The adjustment is probably not unique to MS email readers. Instead, it is a
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fixed versus variable font issue.
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HTH,
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Mike
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----- Original Message -----
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From: "Tuexen Michael"
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<Michael.Tuexen AT icn.siemens.de>
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To:
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<discussion AT sctp.de>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 7:25 AM
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Subject: RE: [SCTP-Discussion] heartbeat
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Dear Sebastian,
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there is a perfect tool for making ASCII graphics
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called Email Effects, which is available from
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http://www.sigsoftware.com
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I can only answer (or comment) your question because
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the company I'm working for has bought a license
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from a well known sofware company so that I can read
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the file you have attached.
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Please use plain ASCII in future postings, or use at
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least .pdf.
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What OS are you using. The behaviour is, lets say,
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strange (or buggy). I tried the same here with FreeBSD
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and MacOS X and I had a correct behaviour. Only the
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interface, which was pinged, answered with the correct
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address. So your IP layer is strange and that affects also
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the SCTP layer.
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The testbed I'm using has dualhomed hosts with IP addresses
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in different networks and both hosts are connected by two
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HUBS/Switches. So both netwroks are physically seperated,
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therefore it is easy to produce path failures. More advanced
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tests are done using the following setup:
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+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
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| Host A | | WAN Emulator| | Host Z |
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| | | | | |
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| 192.168.1.1|---------|192.168.1.254| | |
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| | | | | |
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| | |192.168.2.254|---------|192.168.2.1 |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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| | |192.169.2.254|---------|192.169.2.1 |
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| | | | | |
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| 192.169.1.1|---------|192.169.1.254| | |
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| | | | | |
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| | | | | |
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+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
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The forwarding in host A is configure in a way that all packets for
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192.168.0.0 are send to 192.168.1.254 and all packets for 192.169.0.0
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are send to 192.169.1.254. Host B is configured in the same way.
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The WAN Emulator is a PC with 4 Ethernet interfaces running FreeBSD.
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The DUMMYNET package (part of the FreeBSD OS) is used to delay and/or
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drop packets. Therefore the packets between host A and host Z will
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experience loss, delay, reordering and so on. For more information see
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http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/
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Hope that helps.
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Best regards
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Michael
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Michael Tuexen Tel.: +49 89 722 47210
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Siemens AG Fax: +49 89 722 48212
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ICN WN CS SE 5 E-mail:
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Michael.Tuexen AT icn.siemens.de
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: S> ébastien Edel
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> [SMTP:s.edel AT nmg.fr]
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:47 AM
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> To: SCTP mailing list
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> Subject: [SCTP-Discussion] heartbeat
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> hello all
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> Please have a look to the attached file
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> regards Sébastien << File: heartbeat.doc >>
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