Re: Problem with SLIP in 2.1.126

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:57:28 +0000 (GMT)

> The way I forced 9600baud was to set one moden so that its max
> and min baud rates were both 9600b. I think this prevented
> any speed negociation even though the modem at the far end was
> not constrained. The USR documentation on retraining is vague
> to put it mildly.

It'll still do error correction but yes

> My conclusion from this is that it is more likely that there
> is a hang/timeout somewhere in the SLIP handling rather than
> a modem problem. I have new (56k) USR modems on order in any

Ok. Some other folk with similar problems are putting 2.1.8x as where
things started to go bizarre. That should help pin it down

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