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- From: jeh@cmkrnl.com
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: Need faster async board...dlv11-J? Something else?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.000534.1284@cmkrnl.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:05:34 PST
- References: <1993Jan22.151835.1265@cmkrnl.com> <14012022@zl2tnm.gen.nz> <1993Jan23.110940.1270@cmkrnl.com> <1993Jan25.121940.341@rlgsc.com>
- Summary: The subject has drifted, hasn't it?
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- Organization: Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego, CA
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- In article <1993Jan25.121940.341@rlgsc.com>, gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
- > In article <1993Jan23.110940.1270@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
- >> They also put out some release note on, I believe, DS200 3.1 code, talking
- >> about the server "asserting RI [ring indicator]", when RI is of course not
- >> sourced by the terminal server!
- > Are you sure that the reference to RI was not concerning the case
- > of the server providing Reverse-LAT services. On some systems,
- > the host must see RI on a dialup connection before it will
- > "answer the phone".
- >
- > In that case, the server needs to assert RI, since the server is
- > behaving as a modem, not as a host.
-
- It may "need to", but it can't, not unless it's working (as Terry Kennedy
- suggested) through a "null modem" cable. (In which case the server asserts
- some *other* signal, which is "wired through" to RI, pin 22, at the far end of
- the cable.)
-
- Otherwise...
-
- A DEC terminal server can absolutely *not* assert RI, because that pin is not
- wired to a line driver -- it's wired to a line receiver. The electronics
- simply aren't in the box that would allow it to provide a signal on that pin.
- This is because a terminal server is, in EIA-232 parlance, a DTE. (You can
- tell that from the fact that it has a male DB-25 connector; DCEs have female
- connectors.)
-
- Asking it to source RI (or, for that matter, RD, CTS, or CD) is like asking a
- telephone to generate ring and battery voltages. (Very much like that, in
- fact!)
-
- --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Systems, San Diego CA
- drivers, internals, networks, applications, and training for VMS and Windows NT
- uucp 'g' protocol guru and release coordinator, VMSnet (DECUS uucp) W.G., and
- Chair, Programming and Internals Working Group, U.S. DECUS VMS Systems SIG
- Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, or hanrahan@eisner.decus.org Uucp: uunet!cmkrnl!jeh
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