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From: tromp@swi.psy.uva.nl (Tromp Jolanda)
Subject: FreeBSD and serial flow control
Message-ID: <Cn0Gz8.3s3@swi.psy.uva.nl>
Organization: Social Science Informatics
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 10:54:44 GMT
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Hi,

Is there really no serial flow control support in the kernel?
Somewhere I read that FreeBSD did not support CTS/RTS style
flow control. I've tried everything reconfiguring the modems
with K3 and K5 (rts/cts and XON/XOFF respectively) changing
the gettytab till my fingers bled. Recompiling the kernel
to use the com driver instead of the sio driver. Trying differnt
modems for answering. But no luck :(

I'm using DynaLink modems for answering and at high speeds
no problems show up. But lower speeds constantly f*ck up
and SLIP also refuses to work as well.

Any ideas? Should I use NetBSD instead? Should I just buy a
terminal server instead? Should I hire a traffic police man
to control the data flow?

As you can see I'm pretty desperate for answers :-)

Hope this is enough info to go on.

Mimir