Date: Mon, 3 Aug 92 10:20:44 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V5 #30 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 3 Aug 92 Volume 5 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: SUN 3/50 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 15:23:51 CST From: malcolm@nutmeg.cs.ntu.edu.au (Malcolm Caldwell) Subject: SUN 3/50 To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Hello, I am new to this group, but have not seen any reference to this on the archive. I want to run some 3/50s together using v32 v42bis modems. Normally you would set the serial port speed for this at 38400. When I do this, using tip and kermit I get lost characters. I have set the modems to use hardware flow control. I have used a straight through cable. I have modified gettytab to include ms=crtscts. I have set the local tip/kermit to use hardware flow control. Still characters are dropped. The manual page says that only half of hardware flow control is supported. This would account for what I observe, that is characters from the remote machine being dropped. The behavior suggests that the modem is simply sending characters to fast. When I do a ls, the first time it works. The second time I only get a few lines. This suggests that a buffer is getting full, but only when the characters has been compressed so is being sent faster. I set the local speed in kermit to 9600 and the problem went away. Questions. 1. Are my assumptions correct? 2. Has anyone solved this problem? 3. Will slip fix this to satisfaction? (I intend going to slip, tip was just quick) I understand slip will ensure that all characters get through, but at what cost? -- Malcolm Caldwell Email: malcolm@pandanus.ntu.edu.au Technical Officer Ph: +61 89 466546 Computer Science Fax: +61 89 270612 Northern Territory University, Darwin Australia ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************