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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Modem problem Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 02:13:18 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 13 Message-ID: <311729BE.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <4f5ttl$eo2@ice.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: David Finkelstein <davef@cs.ubc.ca> David Finkelstein wrote: > However, all of them experience the following problem. After some > (variable) amount of time happily connected, the modem appears to > wedge itself into an unresponsive state. No packets can come in, and I'll bet this is actually a hardware problem. Some internal modems have exhibited this behavior for me as well, and one of the great evils of internal modems is that when they do hang, you have to power cycle the whole machine to get them back. External modems are a little nicer this way, and they also don't overheat quite so easily. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project