Subj : Bad packets
To   : Richard Vonzel
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Mar 24 2025 01:45 pm

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