From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 16 11:18:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA16043 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:18:41 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA16036 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:18:35 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA24974; Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:12:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510161812.LAA24974@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Too many UUCP checksum errors! Help! To: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:12:41 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510160039.KAA17797@kiwi.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> from "Raoul Golan" at Oct 16, 95 10:39:18 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1506 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I've got one more problem I need help with (hopefully the last). > I've set up UUCP to a linux machine, and I'm finding that uucico > fails miserably due to too many checksum errors. > > I've tried protocols i and g, and they both suffer from the same > problem. > > I've made sure that XON/XOFF flow control was off, and that > CTS/RTS flow control was on. I did this by checking stty > on my /dev/cua* device, which listed "-ixon -ixoff crtscts". > I also send a command to my modem when dialling that explicitly > sets CTS/RTS flow control on, and XON/XOFF flow control off. Some modems ignore this when error checking is turned on. Specifically, many non-Microcomm el-cheapo MNP capable modems (for instance) do not have enough RAM to adequately maintain compression buffers without flow control. Also, it may not be your modem. It could be the other end. It may not be your xon/xoff. It could be the other end. What data rate are you running, and is it over long distance? Only AT&T and TelAmerica use high-speed modem friendly multiplexing. If you connect using an LD service that uses ATM & Leaky Bucket, your modem communications will suffer. Finally, are your modems on both ends at 8N1? Some modems will do parity matching when they are first connected to, at which point you are screwed for all further binary communications through them. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.