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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:12:43 +1100 (EST)
From:      Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
To:        Questions@FreeBSD.oRG
Subject:   Hardware flow control.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009292001560.229-100000@stan>

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Man (4) termios states

The CCTS_OFLOW (CRTSCTS) flag is currently unused.

Is this likely to change in the near future ?

I am using SMSLink (http://www.styx.demon.co.uk/smslink/) and
libmodem-1.5 to send critical service notifications from Netsaint
(http://www.netsaint.org) to an SMS modem (a Wavecom WM02).

This works Ok but there is message loss if the message rate exceeeds
12/minute (my testing, not the rate of critical notifications).

If libmodem uses hardware flow control (rather than XON/XOFF) the
message loss is worse.

I suppose that the real culprit is the application since 9600 bits per
second is much faster than 12 * 160 * 8/60 bits in a 160 byte SMS
message /second.

Would anyone care to comment on hardware flow control ?

Thank you,

Yours sincerely.

S Hopcroft
Network Specialist
IP Australia

+61 2 6283 3189
+61 2 6281 1353 FAX




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