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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!panix!oppedahl
- From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
- Subject: Re: strange Zyxel modem problem
- Message-ID: <C17x0p.JwI@panix.com>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
- References: <30203@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <WBE.93Jan20215902@crystal.bbn.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:05:13 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- In <WBE.93Jan20215902@crystal.bbn.com> wbe@bbn.com (Winston Edmond) writes:
-
- >kline@cs.arizona.edu (Nick Kline) asks:
- > I have a next 68040 cube running OS 3.0 with a zyxel 1496E modem
- > running 5.02 Roms.
- >...
- > One way to cause the problem is to log on at 9600 baud and cat a large
- > file. After a while it seems to overrun the capabilities of the computer.
-
- > I am using all the default setting on the Zyxel, and have a proper 68040
- > modem cable that worked before with a 2400 baud modem.
-
- >Maybe your computer could keep up at 2400 bps and can't keep up at 9600 bps +
- >compression?
-
- >The default flow control on many UNIX systems is XON/XOFF. Check the serial
- >port setup and see if "crtscts" (RTS/CTS) is enabled. Alternatively, if
- >you're logged in via the port, try "stty -a", look at the end of the second
- >line, and see if it says "crtscts" or "-crtscts".
-
- And while we are listing all the things that could conceivably be the
- problem -- is there any chance the modem cable fails to provide
- RTS/CTS? That is, does it only have two data lines and a ground line?
- If so, and if the modem were set to hardware flow control rather than
- XON/XOFF flow control, that could be your problem.
-
- I vaguely recall the ZyXEL defaults to RTS/CTS flow control rather
- than XON/XOFF. So you would ideally want to be sure you have a cable
- that carries those signals, and you would want to configure the
- serial port on the computer to use RTS/CTS flow control.
-
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