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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:52:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Still more dialin problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9810121252260.25080-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981010094846.19668p-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>

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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Bryce Newall wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm still mystified as to why I'm having such a hard time dialing into my
> FreeBSD system from the outside.  I've done some more testing, and here's
> what I've come up with so far:
> 
> * Using Minicom, I can dial out from the FreeBSD machine to an outside
> site, such as a BBS, with no problem.
> 
> * From my other machine, running Windows NT, on a differnet phone line,
> using HyperTerminal, I can dial out to a BBS. 
> 
> * Using HyperTerm and Minicom, though, I cannot even dial from the NT
> machine to the FreeBSD machine and talk, or from the FreeBSD to the NT
> machine.  When I do it either way, I see the "CONNECT xxxx" message on the
> FreeBSD box, but not in NT.  And I get occasional spurts of letters
> (nothing intelligible, though) on the FreeBSD machine, and nothing at all
> on the NT machine.

Perhaps you didn't enable the getty on that port?

Perhaps your FreeBSD and NT modems hate each other?

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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