Intermittant modem failure? (fwd)

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Hi,

Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Gert Doering wrote:
> 
> > has anybody an idea about this? My guess would be "cheap modems", but I
> > can't say [no modem type mentioned]. Maybe someone else has already
> > experienced and solved this?
> 
> This is happening with Digicom rack modems (DSI MultiAccess Communications
> System) which are supposed to be "industrial" type modems rather than
> consumer grade.

Should be OK then.

> Another problem which I'm seeing both on the Digicom's and on our USR
> Sportsters (I know we shouldn't be using Sportsters) is this sort of brief
> lockup after a call terminates. This one, I'm guessing is entirely the
> modems fault and not mgetty's. I've been complaining to Digicom about it.
> Our USR MP boxes don't do it and I don't think our ISPorte has ever done
> it.

This could be a problem of two DTR drops in quick succession. Please try
setting "toggle-dtr no" in mgetty.config, and check whether it goes away.


It should not be related to the intermittant "modem doesn't react to AT"
failures.

gert

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