Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:12:47 +0200 (MET DST) From: devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Direct UUCP stopped working but UUCP via PPP still works Message-ID: <199610151812.UAA00811@adv.IAEhv.nl> In-Reply-To: <199610150631.QAA30156@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Oct 15, 96 04:31:59 pm"
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Bruce Evans: >>Does anybody recognize these symptoms? Is it a hardware problem? If yes, >>why do I only see it with direct UUCP and not with UUCP over TCP/IP? > >Yes. Yes. Because uucp calls tcsetattr() a lot, and the buggy hardware >loses sync when the speed is set (even to the same value) while data is >arriving. Sync is not regained until data stops arriving. Fixed (mostly) >in -current by not setting the speed if the speed hasn't changed. Exactly, that seems to be the problem. I got a mail from Oleg N Panashchenko who pointed me to the following patch for 2.1 and 2.1.5 systems: ftp://ftp.tav.kiev.ua/pub/unix/FreeBSD/sio_FIFOfix.tgz This patched solved my problem. Thanks to all who replied to my question. Arjan
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