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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: system hang during file transfer over serial port
Date: 14 Aug 1995 14:28:28 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Larry Snyder <larry@rn.com> wrote:
>>Turn on hardware flow control on the modem and the port.
>
>how do you turn on hardware flow control for example, when
>using a port as cuaa1? Doesn't the device you reference the
>port as determine the flow control?
getty still uses sgtty style commands, thus cannot do it for you. :-(
The safest bet is /etc/rc.serial and locking the modem device(s) to
use hardware flow control.
>larry (who would like to make sure I'm using hardware flow
>control on the port when I use PPP to fire up an internet
>connection...)
I think PPP can handle it if you tell it in some configuration file or
flag.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)