Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 16:37:35 -0500 From: Stephen Couchman <scouch@io.org> To: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Eureka, it finally works! ;-))) Message-ID: <199601022137.QAA21128@io.org>
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First thanks to all (there were many - Johnathan, Donald, Gary, Barry, and others) who helped me on this. The problem was a faulty serial cable. It seems that the cable worked in DOS, with tip and cu, but not iij-ppp. I tried the new cable with my 1200 baud, and it works. I now have the 28.8 Kb modem. At least I learned a lot about ppp and serial comms in general, and met a bunch of interesting folks. Thanks again -- Stephen At 10:49 AM 1/2/96 -0800, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Donald Burr wrote: > >> [...my solution...] > >To further elaborate, when you used tip and cu to access your modem, it >worked, because AFAIK tip/cu don't indiscriminately set crtscts on the >port they're accessing. In fact, most programs don't. This is why >/etc/rc.serial exists, so that default parameters for each serial port >can be set. If you had a high speed modem and tried using it with >tip/cu, CRTSCTS would not be enabled, and because the modems weren't >handshaking, you'd end up with a lot of lost data and other nastiness due >to the high modem speed. > ______________________________ Stephen Couchman | scouch@io.org
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