Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 00:59:13 +1000 (EST) From: Iain Templeton <iain@misnomer.clare.tased.edu.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wierd dialup problems (hangups etc) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960817005040.27543A-100000@misnomer.clare.tased.edu.au>
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I suspect this is not a FreeBSD problem, more a phone/modem problem, but I was wondering if anybody else has these problems, and if so underwhat circumstance. These things are happening under 2.1.0-RELEASE and two modems by the same manufacturer. (although different speeds 14.4 and 28.8). 1) When dialled in using a terminal program to access a shell, if a lot of text is written to the screen (eg it scrolls and scrolls and ...), then after a while the transfer just stops - and the only recovery is to hang up and dial in again (you get used to doing | more after a while). 2) Z-Modem transfers regularly have bad packets (in fact every 4K), which really kills the transfer rate (I was getting 400 bytes/sec on a 14.4K modem - peak is about 1200 bytes/sec). The really strange thing is that the lockup doesn't happen when doing a binary download or using ppp, only with shells (which makes me think that it could be my terminal program). Oh yes the remote (ie on the server) is on a PABX, however the phone call is on the same exchange (at least I hope so since they share the first two number in the phone number, but still --this bit removed for political reasons---). Thanks for any insight you can shed on this (I still think its the telephone network though) Iain. ---- Iain Templeton: Sometime Claremont College Unix administrator Email: iain@ugh.net.au ----
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