>>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.
I guess I'm not explaining this correctly. The portmaster seems to be dropping
DTR in the middle of the session and having the DTR drop out set so low (.5)
the modem is re-configing. BUT if I up the DTR drop out then the modem
will not disconnect on the logout since the portmaster on logout will only keep
DTR low for .5 seconds. This really needs to be either adjustable or flat out
raised to atleast 3 seconds.
As for this low cost thinking I will tell you right now that it was a factor in
our buying of Multitech modems. But they are also THE only vendor to receive
the 920002 (something like that) certification USR and the other major vendors
can not say that.
Also when I started looking at Livingston the price was a factor or else I
would have gone with the DEC server 900. Then again I feel Livingston has a
good unit here but the software could use another look. There are alot of
features that I feel could be put in with very little effort if the engineers
there would do it.
I tested a Xylogics Annex unit here for several months and the end result was
I could not get the box to work as they said it would and they ended up saying
that it was my modems and that they must be doing somoething to the script I
was running to make it abort. I thought like someone else mentioned that I was
getting away from that crap when I started with Livingston.
Brian