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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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