From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 07:59:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA08520 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:59:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misnomer.clare.tased.edu.au (root@misnomer.clare.tased.edu.au [147.41.130.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA08512 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (iain@localhost) by misnomer.clare.tased.edu.au (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA27567 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:59:15 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:59:13 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton Reply-To: iain@ugh.net.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wierd dialup problems (hangups etc) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I suspect this is not a FreeBSD problem, more a phone/modem problem, but I was wondering if anybody else has these problems, and if so underwhat circumstance. These things are happening under 2.1.0-RELEASE and two modems by the same manufacturer. (although different speeds 14.4 and 28.8). 1) When dialled in using a terminal program to access a shell, if a lot of text is written to the screen (eg it scrolls and scrolls and ...), then after a while the transfer just stops - and the only recovery is to hang up and dial in again (you get used to doing | more after a while). 2) Z-Modem transfers regularly have bad packets (in fact every 4K), which really kills the transfer rate (I was getting 400 bytes/sec on a 14.4K modem - peak is about 1200 bytes/sec). The really strange thing is that the lockup doesn't happen when doing a binary download or using ppp, only with shells (which makes me think that it could be my terminal program). Oh yes the remote (ie on the server) is on a PABX, however the phone call is on the same exchange (at least I hope so since they share the first two number in the phone number, but still --this bit removed for political reasons---). Thanks for any insight you can shed on this (I still think its the telephone network though) Iain. ---- Iain Templeton: Sometime Claremont College Unix administrator Email: iain@ugh.net.au ----