Re: rtc - xon

Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com)
Sat, 31 May 1997 14:22:41 -0600 (MDT)

On Sat, 31 May 1997, Stavros Patiniotis wrote:

> I was just do a bit on research into my pm2e-30 comos 3.5. I have
> set all rtc on

You must mean set al rts[/cts] on? There is no rtc option.

> set all xon off
>
> Now, I have several disconnect problems, that are **real** strange. ie
> customers have no problem connecting to another service provider, using
> same modems. Now a LARGE proportion ie 50% of these customers cease to
> have a problem when I instruct them to change their port settings
> (through control-panel-system) to 38400, HARDWARE.
>
> I was just wondering whether it would be ok to turn xon as well as rtc
> on. Will this present a problem, or will the pm just use whatever the
> remote end is using.

You should use RTS/CTS (hardware) flow control on both ends and no
XON/XOFF. This works well for me. XON/XOFF is an old way of doing it for
slow speed links.

- Steve
- Systems Manager
- Community Internet Access, Inc.
- Gallup and Grants, New Mexico