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From: lmiller@cortes.cibnor.mx (Larry Miller [DT])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ijppp crashing serial connection
Date: 6 Dec 1996 00:06:38 GMT
Organization: Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas
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Trev Roydhouse (Trev.Roydhouse@f401.n711.z3.fidonet.org) wrote:

: This sounds like a classic case of modem buffer overrun (in fact your modem
: should be able to give you the reason for the last disconnect to prove this).  

: Make sure that you have hardware handshaking (CTS/RTS) enabled in your modem
: profile and in your tty port setup.  

Actually, it was parity disagreement (problem solved this morning), but I
*would* have liked my modem to tell me it was going on; how does one
elicit that info? 

Thanks for the ideas--

Larry Miller
Administrador de Redes / Network Administrator
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste, La Paz, BCS Mexico