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- From: tnixon@hayes.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: ZyXEL: Fall Forward? Yes or No?
- Message-ID: <6343.2b08d778@hayes.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 11:28:56 EDT
- References: <rhoward.721069740@matd> <oi0cuB1w165w@zswamp.UUCP> <1992Nov17.063557.22167@engr.uark.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.063557.22167@engr.uark.edu>, hbj@engr.uark.edu
- (Bernard Johnson) writes:
-
- > geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
- >> *All* V.32bis modems must support fallback and fallforward requests.
- >>However, they are not obliged to honour them (i.e., they may refuse and insist
- >>on keeping the current speed),
- >
- > I really wouldn't call that supporting it then. The way I understood the spec
- > was that the modem was not required to initiate a fall{back/forward} but must
- > honor one if requested by the connected modem.
-
- No, Mr. Welsh is correct. The standard requires a V.32bis modem
- that receives a rate renegotiation request to respond to that
- request. The request includes a bitmap of speeds acceptable to the
- initiator (usually, the desired speed and all lower speeds); the
- response includes a bitmap of speeds acceptable to the responder.
- These bitmaps are "ANDed" together. If the result is 00000, the
- call is disconnected. If the result is non-zero, the speed changes
- to the highest speed in common between the those indicated by the
- initiator and those indicated by the responder.
-
- There are several situations in which a responder might want to not
- accept a rate renegotiation: it might be receiving line noise not
- apparent to the initiator; it's DTE might be connected in plain old
- async mode (&Q0) without flow control, in which case speed changing
- is impossible; it might be a synchronous modem being externally
- clocked, in which case speed changing is also impossible. The
- standard simply cannot require a modem to change speeds if it is
- impossible or inappropriate to do so. All the standard can do is
- specify how it is done, but it must be left up to the modems, based
- on line conditions and application requirements, to decide whether
- or not a particular request will be accepted.
-
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