From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 10:59:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27222 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:59:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27206 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:59:44 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA06910; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:59:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.serial ? In-Reply-To: <19980416085757.46179@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > 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? Absolutely! It's a huge problem. We're talking about vendors trying to follow a standard here -- there are bound to be incompatibilities. If you have name-brand modems that are 28.8 or faster, try contacting the manufacturer for a software upgrade. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message