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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:23 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, hm@altona.hamburg.com
Subject:   Re: Multi-Port Async Cards
Message-ID:  <199601282215.PAA01682@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199601281819.FAA19242@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 29, 96 05:19:58 am

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> >This driver needs a) a hardware
> >modification in the plugs and b) need mgetty because the interlock between
> >incoming and outgoing calls is not done in the driver (so it must be done
> >with mgetty). a) and b) are not acceptable for my purposes.
> 
> It only needs mgetty if you want to do both incoming and outgoing calls.

The calling unit/non-calling unit device interlock (even though I disagree
with using that approach to line sharing) is a trivial fix.

The use of mgetty is evil because of assumptions made by mgetty, independent
of which driver it is used on.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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