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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:03:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Dru <genisis@istar.ca>, ong1s@cmich.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.4 kernel, ppp -auto shutdown
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001031901350.37296-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <386FAD2E.9827B64A@3-cities.com>

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On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
>Actually, you should set it faster than that. In order to fully do the
>v42.bis compression, you need a rate that is ~4x your connect rate. At
>56kb, that would be 230,400 but most systems have 115,200 as a divisor
>of 1 for the uart and they won't go that high. If you have a slow
>system, it may not be able to support sio at 115200 and you could have
>to drop it until everything is reliable. He may need to specify
>rts/cts buffering. It seems like the system defaults to everything
>proper except the speed of 115200.

I have a 56K PCMCIA modem card in my laptop, and that speed statement was
the cause of all my dropped connection woes.  Once i changed it to 57600,
everything worked fine.  My connection has been solid as a rock since
then.

-=> jm <=-





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