From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 23 14:08:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA00554 for current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:08:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA00548 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01663; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:56:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199706232056.NAA01663@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: getty modem control To: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:56:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199706231942.TAA26178@veda.is> from "Adam David" at Jun 23, 97 07:42:14 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Talking to the modem from getty is evil. > > Something has to initialise it ... set settings ... AT&W > (and reassert initialisation). ... on-to-off transition of DTR causes modem reset as if powered off then back on ... > Also it is useful to interact with the modem on RING, ... off-to-on transition of RI ... This is most useful if you want to hang pending an inbound call, and *then* chat up the modem to direct the call once it is in progress, but allow outbound connections to occur without process contention for the port in the absence of an inbound call. > CONNECT ... off-to-on DCD transition ... > and hangup events. ... on-to-off DCD transition ... This is not to say that having a modem *driver* capable of caching caller ID (and called-ID) for late retrival of the data, and for multiplexing the modem into "outgoing", "inbound data", "inbound fax", and "inbound voice" as seperate devices so that each of the users of the inbound device can hang pending "DCD" instead of chatting up the modem... would not be useful. Only that your particular arguments for a talkative getty are invalid. 8-). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.