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From: jan@todonix.ping.de (Jan Wedekind)
Subject: Re: silo overflows
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Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 08:54:22 GMT
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& Guenther (arnulf@arnulf.dialup.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Once in a while I get the message

: ...
: Apr 30 20:45:09 arnulf /kernel: sio1: 2 more silo overflows (total 2)

: I wonder what that means.  The system works just fine, even under
: heavy load.  No problems.  I looked into the source.  But didn't
: understand a thing (well, I should've tried harder 8)).  Any
: explanations?

Well, you're operations with dialin or dialout lines, connecting
via uucp or any IP-Protocol ?

Then you'll get this message after loosing an character over this serial
connection. 

Because of the error corrections of the TCP/IP-Protocols and the UUCP
protocoll you'll not register this error at real work.

Jan
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