Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: rohit@cs.UMD.EDU Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange 'tip' and 'ppp' behaviour over USR 28.8 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960925205533.647T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199609260051.UAA07806@darling.cs.UMD.EDU>
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 rohit@cs.UMD.EDU wrote: > Some really strange problems have been confounding my connectivity > to the local ISP. I describe the problem below : would some care to > offer some insight! > > I have a USR sportster 28.8K external FAX modem hooked up to COM2 > with Straight thru cable. > > I have a PPP and a dialup account from the local ISP (Digex). > > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.5. > > When I dial in to the ISP using 'tip', the connection goes thru > fine, but I am frequently interrupted by moderately long periods > of silence where my keystrokes are not echoed onto the screen. > These keystrokes seem to be bufferred someplace (TCP??, remote modem??) > as they spring back up after a while. I lose characters sometimes, > but only very rarely. 1) Have you tried other hosts? 2) If the gap was shorter, I'd say you have problems with line noise and the Sportster is just retraining a bunch. But a whole minute is a bit long for a retrain! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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