mgetty problems

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Hi,

for me this sounds like flow control problems. Make sure mgetty's setting
for DATA_FLOW and the *modems* setting agree.  If the modem is set to
Xon/Xoff and the serial port is set to RTS/CTS, the behaviour you describe
would be quite typical.

I'm CC:'ing this to the mgetty mailing list, maybe someone else has some
more suggestions.

gert

Eric Harlow wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently pulled down the latest mgetty to use because of everyone
> telling me how much better it is over getty.  I compiled it with the
> AutoPPP option because I have some Win95 dial-ups.
> 
> I have the following problems.
> 
> NT users are unable to connect.  They get CRC errors - and cannot do
> anything.  Right now I have them connect via a line with getty installed.
> 
> Mac/C-128 users have problems.  Mac users cannot connect via PPP.
> C-128 user connects with a shell - but has problems using lynx/pine
> because it looks like XON/XOFF chars are being received by the application
> (lynx, pine).  I can't see what he's seeing, but it sounded ugly.
> 
> Win-95 users connect great and can browse fine, but FTP transfers and
> newsgroups are dog slow.  I've verified this myself.  100K file transfers
> take a half an hour if the line was answered with mgetty.
> 
> I know mgetty shouldn't be the cause of the problem, but I've eliminated
> everything else as the cause.  Something in the mgetty is killing the
> speed.  It's not the speed of the line because I've watched the modem
> lights - it starts out just fine transferring - and then it stops... and
> waits... and waits ... and then there's a short burst... and then it
> wait... and waits...
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
>  -Eric
> 
> 


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