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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: getty on auto-answer modem Date: 18 Feb 1994 04:02:12 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 72 Message-ID: <2k1ek4$a3m@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Feb09.155746.46841@rchland.ibm.com> <2jj5p8$gri@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Feb16.162854.22456@rchland.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu [ Please limit your lines to < 80 chars ] In article <1994Feb16.162854.22456@rchland.ibm.com>, John Nistler <john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >In article <2jj5p8$gri@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >|> First of all, can you dialout using the line w/out any problems? > Well, just for this test I have been unpluging my mouse and using > sio00(tty00 not bidir) to call out on my old 2400 speed modem. I did a > test call to work(using tip and connected to the cisco box at work just > fine) Is the line you are using for your modem the same line as for the mouse? >|> >Before the call comes in the modems SD and RD lights are flickering. >|> >|> That sounds like something else is on the line doing it's thing (getty). > Sounds like you are saying that getty is doing this activity(I think > you are right), but I was under the impression that it wouldn't do this, > because this port(sio01) is bidirectional. To get bi-directional capabilities you need to have two different /dev entries, on for call-out and one for call-in. > I am unable to call out on > the dial out side of this port because of the getty on the dial in side. > I don't understand why this does not work as advertised? Because it's not configured correctly, and how to configure it not well advertised. :-( >|> >Then the call comes in the CD and OH lights go on but the SD and RD lights go out. >|> >|> At that point getty stuck up the login screen and is waiting for something >|> to happen. > Doing a ps does show many times that the getty is gone and a login is > in its place. But, most of the time there is gibberish after the login > command. Is login getting gibberish off the line and thinking it is my > password or is it really encryption. I did get a login to appear once > or twice, but that was only after the call was already made, and I > killed of getty, and messed around with the clocal, speed, and cs[78]. Sounds like either flow control or line speed problems. >|> Could be a flow control problem, or a simple setup problem. A unix >|> boot would be a good thing to have in these cases. >Question: Do both modems need to support flow control? Both modems? Do you mean at both ends, and yes they must agree on the flow control used. > Question2: Are there standard values for bits per char(cs7 or cs8), I > take it everyone is using parity none, any other got-ya-s. Not necessarily. Check out /etc/gettytab for what the modem is going to use. (To be frank, I'm not that experienced on setting up incoming modems, so you'd be better off getting a book on it or finding someone more experienced at it than me.) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.