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From: bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: silo overflow [help!]
Date: 21 Jun 1994 14:38:07 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney - +61-2-837-1183, v.32bis v.42bis
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Message-ID: <2u5qrf$th@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
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In article <mldCr4CpB.GnB@netcom.com>, Matthew Deter <mld@netcom.com> wrote:
>I just enabled COM_BIDIR in my kernel, set up the devs, the ttys file,
>...
>Dialins work great except that the console receives, upon connect,
>this missage:
>...
>Is this error normal?  Is it something to worry about?  How do I shut
>it up?  Thanks...

It is normal.  The modem sends CONNECT or something while the driver is
not listening.  This causes a silo overflow.  The COM_BIDIR version of
the driver forgets to ignore the error.
-- 
Bruce Evans  bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au