Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 02:56:38 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: harry@hgac.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ache@astral.msk.su, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, pas@tonesoft.com, terry@cs.weber.edu Subject: Re: dial up at > 9600 baud Message-ID: <199507251726.CAA03255@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199507251500.BAA01601@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 26, 95 01:00:02 am
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > > >I and a number of local ISPs run 14K dialins supporting both user logins > >and SLIP without any such trouble. Are your /etc/ttys entries using > >getty.std or getty.38400? > > Neither of these exists. There is nothing corresponding to getty.std > unless you count the ancient auto-bauding entries. getty.38400 is > spelled std.38400. The default (in /etc/ttys) is std.9600 for all MHA 8( I wasn't in a position to check, so I should have Kept My Big Mouth Shut 8) > lines. This should never be used for modern modems. It should be > changed to avoid providing a bad example. Use std.115200 if possible, > else std.57600 if possible, else std.38400... Hmm; with reference to Rod's comments on 'cheap dialout modems'; lots of low-end 14k units won't go above 38k4 DTE, so I'd suggest that that would be a safe default. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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