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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!docws001!ottnews!tomqnx.tomqnx.com!tom From: tom@tomqnx.tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) Subject: Re: Strange Taylor UUCP problem on Freebsd 2.1.0 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 159.249.8.221 Message-ID: <Dv6332.DB7@ottnews.shl.com> Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: usenet@ottnews.shl.com (News Administrator) Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc. (Ottawa) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <4ta4qr$80f@itesec.hsc.fr> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:18:37 GMT Lines: 37 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.uucp:16603 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:24542 Make sure you are running with 8-N-1 (no parity) on both sides. You must use crtscts and have a properly configured null modem cable, with ALL the connections made. Should work at 115200. Read /etc/rc.serial and set it up. Good luck! Tom Vincent Archer (archer@hsc.fr) wrote: : Got a strange problem using Taylor UUCP 1.06 (coming straight out of the : FreeBSD 2.1 cdrom). I'm supposed to call from a Solaris 2.4 (HDB UUCP), : so I'm stuck to protocol "g". The BSD machine reported all kind of checksum : errors, ending the transfer after 10mn (for a single remote command!). : I tried to recompile UUCP 1.06.1, and ended having two BSD machines, using : both the same uucico binary, and still gets the checksum errors on each : "g" protocol packet. : The link between the two machines is clear. It's a null modem of 3 meters. : I dropped the speed to 9600 to be sure that my 16550 would have zero pbms. : When I log in manually using cu, I have 0 problem. No characters lost, : no garbage, even at full blast (cat of large text files). So, the line is : clear. : So, in short: : The line is OK : The ports are OK (and cs8 while talking, I've checked) : The binaries are the same : yet, the 'g' protocol fails : (same checksum errors reported from the Solaris machine) : (and yes, I've checked 'i'. Doesn't work either) : Any idea of what could go wrong? Pointer for future investigation? : -- : Vincent ARCHER -=-=- Herve Schauer Consultants -=-=- archer@hsc.fr : Tel: +33 1 46388990 Fax: +33 1 46380505