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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ijppp crashing serial connection
Date: 10 Dec 1996 05:04:12 -0000
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In article <587o2e$k83@bermejo.cibnor.mx>,
lmiller@cortes.cibnor.mx (Larry Miller [DT]) writes:
: 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?
I guess you've got a direct connection - no login ? If you have wrong
parity, you shouldn't be able to login... you should just get garbage,
same as if you're talking with the wrong number of data or stop bits.
Oh well, glad it worked out.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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