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- From: carlson@xylogics.com (James Carlson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: dial in on unix
- Date: 3 Jan 1996 07:07:07 -0500
- Organization: Xylogics Incorporated
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <4cdrhb$scj@newhub.xylogics.com>
- References: <4cdk4v$28tu@serra.unipi.it>
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- To: michelotto@mvxpd5.pd.infn.it
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- In article <4cdk4v$28tu@serra.unipi.it>, michelotto@mvxpd5.pd.infn.it (Michele Michelotto) writes:
- |>
- |> i have a unix machine (a compaq p5/90 running BSDI) connected to internet via
- |> ethernet. I would like to connect to it via dialin on the modem (usr sporster
- |> 28.8). I can dial out without problem and send initialization string to the
- |> modem using a program named tip on unix. But I can't use the modem as dial in.
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- I assume you've got /etc/ttytab set up with the getty for that line.
- (If not, then you'll need to read the man pages on "getty", et al.)
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- |> when another model calls it, it answer after some rings, contracts for one
- |> or two seconds then drops the communication withour raising the CD line.
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- The modems fail to negotiate? Sounds like a bad phone line and/or modem
- incompatibility problem.
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