Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:57:21 +0200 From: Angelo Turetta <ATuretta@stylo.it> To: "'Nick Pearson'" <nick@ruly46.medfac.leidenuniv.nl>, "'Greg Ungerer'" <gerg@stallion.oz.au> Cc: "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: How to add a delay before getty displays login prompt ? SOLVED THANKS Message-ID: <c=IT%a=_%p=stylo%l=STYLOSERVER960510155726NB006400@servernt.stylo.it>
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Nick gave me the right tip. Using ttydx (and ttyEx for the Stallion) in ttys(5) fixed the problem. BTW, what is the difference between /dev/ttydx and /dev/cuaax. Angelo. PS: for 'Jeff Hupp': the machine is not on-line yet, I'll remove the 'secure' as soon as I add some dial-in user :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Angelo Turetta mailto:aturetta@stylo.it Stylo Multimedia - Bologna - Italy http://www.stylo.it/ >---------- >From: Nick Pearson[SMTP:nick@ruly46.medfac.leidenuniv.nl] >Sent: Friday, 10 May 1996 11:33 >To: Angelo Turetta >Subject: Re: How to add a delay before getty displays login prompt ? > > >Hi Angelo. > >> I'm setting up a few dial-in ports equipped with US-Robotics Sportster >28.8 >> V34 modems. The PC is a 386-40/8MB, dedicated to this task, running >FreeBSD >> 2.1.0R. >> >> This are the ttys lines I'm using >> cuaa2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" dialup on secure >> >> # Stallion EasyIO/8 >> cue0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.38400" dialup on secure > >How about using the ttyd2 and , errrmmm whatever the equivalent is for >your cue0 device. > >cua* devices are usually for dialout. > >> >> Just after the carrier goes up, about at the same time the client reports >> 'CONNECT 28800', the server hangs up the call. >> This happens about 33% times when using a normal 16550 port (cuaa2), and >> about 75% times when the modem is connected to a Stallion EasyIO/8. >> >> I suspect that getty is displaying the prompt string a little too early >for >> the Sportster, and often the modem is still in the phase where any >character >> from the host aborts the connection. >> Reading 'man gettytab' I've not found any parameter to instert a delay >> between the DCD and the first write. >> >> Any experience with that ? Am I wrong with some configuration item ? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Angelo. >> > >home | help
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