vgetty on USR-sportster: watchdog timeout on incoming message

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:06:17 +0200


Hi,

Luca Olivetti wrote:
> > Should the watchdog be running during recording?
> > Should something be resetting it?
> 
> Vgetty resets the watchdog every n bytes received from the modem. The problem 
> is that with GSM compression (which is the default for the sportster) there 
> are less than n bytes before the watchdog times out. 

Interesting indeed.  Thanks for clarifying this.

> I think Marc took another 
> approach in later versions, like signalling every n seconds instead of 
> every n bytes.
> For 1.1.14 here is a quick hack 

This should work on 1.1.15 and 1.1.16 as well - the voice tree hasn't changed
since 1.1.14 (except for adapting to the new RING handling code).

gert
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