From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 29 15:06:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27405 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:06:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27388 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 15:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12498; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:06:05 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA11139; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:07:35 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199901292307.XAA11139@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: David Goddard cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp hanging problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 21:31:05 GMT." <3.0.3.32.19990129213105.00a254e0@mailgate.ftech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:07:35 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [.....] > >Answer 2: > >Does ``set accmap 000a0000'' help ? If it did, that'd be one for the > >books :-) > > I haven't had a chance to try this yet (but will). However, what does this > actually mean? > > I've found the following snippet on the web, but my knowledge of modems is > not exactly exhaustive. > > : If your link freezes as soon as you've connected and you see > : a large number of FCS errors, this may be because your link is > : not 8 bit clean. Make sure your modem is not using software > : flow control (XON/XOFF). If your datalink must use > : software flow control, use the command set accmap 0x000a0000 > : to tell ppp to escape the ^Q and ^S characters. The accmap is a bitmask - 000a0000 maps to bits 17 & 19 (^Q & ^S) - that specifies binary values of less than 32 that should be escaped. > Off the top of your head, do you know of any good sources that I can use to > better educate myself on what is going on here? Not really. I've got my information from RFCs and the ppp sources... > Thanks for the help - I have a few things to check out now... > [I'll send a note to the list with anything concrete that comes out of this] > > Dave [.....] Cheers. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message