From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 19 22:52:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA07573 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07547 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00892; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 22:52:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Online Impressions cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware flow control on ftp install... In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960917231256.0069dc84@mail.deltanet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Online Impressions wrote: > I am having trouble with the FTP install over the net cutting me off during > the install. I have setup the modem with the proper setup string. Is there > some way to configure the term session for hardware flow control? I seem to > be getting kicked off - in the middle of active transfers even.. That depends on a couple of things: 1) Does your ISP have a hard-limit on how long you can stay connected? 2) Does the modem stay idle for more than 5 minutes? #2 you can fix by typing 'set timeout 0' at the ppp> prompt before dropping to terminal mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major