Re: DTR drop out

Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 23:49:34 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 20 Sep 1995, BRIAN TRADER wrote:

> >500 milliseconds, .5 of a second. Non-adjustable.
>
> Doesn't this seem a little short to people??? I mean the Dec servers drop DTR
> for 5 full Seconds after a port logout. We are having alot of sessions being
> being dropped in the middle and the modem is sayinig that it had a request for
> disconnect meaning DTR was dropped or Carrier was dropped.

Yes. This is a serious problem with many modem types that take longer
than 0.5 second to reset, and wind up "hung" when DTR comes back in the
middle of the cycle. The ability to adjust this timer is a much-needed
option.

FWIW, I've been asking for this for at least a year, as have many others.

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