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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 08:57:57 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rc.serial ?
Message-ID:  <19980416085757.46179@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415142209.5235D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:23:17PM -0700
References:  <199804151100.NAA01067@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980415142209.5235D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 02:23:17PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > 
> > While still fighting with my pppd problems (I can now login from
> > linux while another can't with his linux machine) I'm wondering 
> > whether the rc.serial mimicry is still necessary to set up the modem
> > line correctly.
> 
> I think it's mainly meant for terminal lines that don't get any additional
> setup.  I don't even think I have anything in rc.serial that's actually
> active.
> 
> > The problem is that the modem prematurely hangs up during link
> > setup so that the connection gets terminated abruptly by a cause
> > I havn't yet figured out.
> 
> You should probably track this down first before picking apart the
> software setup.  My guess would be modem incompatibility.

You mean, the two modems (server and peer) have problems? Hmm. That would
explain much but OTOH, this guy says he can dial in into so many sites
w/o problems. Is that really happening from time to time that there are
modem pairs which are incompatible?


> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 

-- 
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

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