dialin line speed management

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:35:01PM +1030, Stephen Davies wrote:
> Could someone please explain to me how dialin line speed is managed by mgetty.

Mgetty prefers to have the modem "locked" at a fixed port speed, like
38400 or 115200, and have the modem do the rate adaption to line speed.

> I see that the old gettydefs is not used but cannot see what is.
> 
> I have no problems getting dialin connections to work but have often wondered 
> at the low speed at which most connections take place: I seldomsee more than 
> 19200 even though my mgetty.conf says 38400.

Now that's usually a "bad phone line quality" problem, or the modem init
string isn't ideally yet - see your modem manual for tips about that,
that's not really a mgetty issue.  Mgetty only cares (and knows about)
the speed between modem and computer, which doesn't affect the line
CONNECT speed, as long as it is *faster*.

gert

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