From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 11 14:03:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA04556 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 14:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA04544 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 14:02:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA29605; Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:57:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199607112057.NAA29605@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: forcing a modem to hangup To: tcg@ime.net Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:57:22 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, martin.loeffler@utoronto.ca, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <31E52A8A.24F8@ime.net> from "Gary Chrysler" at Jul 11, 96 12:23:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Failure modes: > > > > 1) Internal modems. Don't buy them, you can't trust them. > > Thats a matter of opinion Terry. > I feel: > External modems. Don't buy them, you can't trust them. > Or the hardware they require. Well, don't buy bad internal modems. 8-|. The problem is that you can't issue a blanket rule that way when manufacturers don't put "bad modem" on the outside of the box, since "the dealer told me it was a good modem, and you didn't give me a list of good modems, so I bought it". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.