From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Apr 22 05:51:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA13213 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unique.usn.blaze.net.au (unique.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA13185; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 05:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by unique.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA29849; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:51:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.0 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199704220437.AAA08665@absinthe.i3inc.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:45:12 +1000 (EST) Organization: Unique Computing From: David Nugent To: Chris Shenton Subject: Re: dialup hangs after Password: prompt, timeout after 300 secon Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, chris@chris.netmonger.net Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 22-Apr-97 Chris Shenton wrote: > [I got login: and password: prompt dialing into my FreeBSD modem sitting > on a getty, but it hung at the password: prompt and connection timed > out after 300 seconds; telnet was fine, so the account was OK] ~ I'll be danged! That was it. I was using tip from a FreeBSD-2.1.7 box > to connect to the modem/getty on a 2.2.1 box. > > I was able get in fine with a lowly WinDoze terminal emulation, > telling the modem to dial with the usual ATDT stuff. > > Sounds like some problem with tip? No, just its default configuration. Unless you've explicitly set parity to none, tip uses even parity. getty handles this situation, but login does not. I've been confused by this situation myself. IMHO, tip should default to 8N1. There's rarely any need these days to use 7 bit parity settings, especially by default, and especially if login does not handle it intelligenty by detecting use of parity and setting termios accordingly (which it could to at a login: prompt, but not Password: unfortunately). Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/