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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: rc.serial ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416105706.6831H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980416085757.46179@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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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



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