Dial-In problems (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 15:37:11 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time gshaske@birchdavis.com shaped the electrons to say...
> and than it halts. I never get to the login: prompt. Rebooting the
> Portmaster 1-2 times seems to cure it for awhile, but it keeps coming
> back. Also, I get similar problems when using USR External sportsters
> to dial in. I get a normal Connect 28800/ARQ and then garbage. I am

This all sounds like modems losing their settings and talking at a
different speed than the PM is. Rebooting the PM is togling DTR which may
wake up the modem - especially if you are using the modem table.

This can be an interaction between the port settings and the modem settings.

-MZ

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