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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:45:12 +1000 (EST)
From:      David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        Chris Shenton <chris@absinthe.i3inc.com>
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, chris@chris.netmonger.net
Subject:   Re: dialup hangs after Password: prompt, timeout after 300 secon
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970422225059.davidn@usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <199704220437.AAA08665@absinthe.i3inc.com>

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On 22-Apr-97 Chris Shenton wrote:
> [I got login: and password: prompt dialing into my FreeBSD modem sitting
> on a getty, but it hung at the password: prompt and connection timed
> out after 300 seconds; telnet was fine, so the account was OK]
~
 I'll be danged! That was it. I was using tip from a FreeBSD-2.1.7 box
> to connect to the modem/getty on a 2.2.1 box.
> 
> I was able get in fine with a lowly WinDoze terminal emulation,
> telling the modem to dial with the usual ATDT stuff.
> 
> Sounds like some problem with tip?

No, just its default configuration.

Unless you've explicitly set parity to none, tip uses even parity.
getty handles this situation, but login does not.

I've been confused by this situation myself. IMHO, tip should default
to 8N1. There's rarely any need these days to use 7 bit parity
settings, especially by default, and especially if login does not
handle it intelligenty by detecting use of parity and setting termios
accordingly (which it could to at a login: prompt, but not Password:
unfortunately).


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
Voice +61-3-9791-9547  Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507  3:632/348@fidonet
davidn@freebsd.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/



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