Discussion: Those people who allow dialin acess to their NeXT system must enable getty on the appropriate serial device. However, one problem with the getty supplied with NeXT is that it has a maximum speed of 38400. Those wishing to dial into a NeXT PPP server are thus limited by the DTE speed of the peer. However, thanks to the work of Gert Doering <gdoering@physik.tu-muenchen.de>, there is a replacment getty that will run on NeXT systems. While Gert's mgetty is intended for Fax usage (and does work under NeXT, but that is another story), it may be used as a replacement for the NeXT supplied getty. mgetty will allow operation at 57600.
Solution: Get and install mgetty-0.22 according to the directions. Before you perform the make, install these Patches curteously supplied by Mark Salyzyn <mark@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca> and Christian Starkjohann <cs@ecs.co.at>. Once mgetty is installed, you must edit /etc/ttys and change the getty entry for your device. For my direct connection, my entry looks like:
ttyfa "/usr/local/bin/mgetty -x 9 -r -b -s 57600 ttyfa DNXFast" unknown on secure
The NXFast entry in /etc/gettytab looks like:
DNXFast::ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / NXFast (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#57600:
I am not certain that the DNXFast entry is even needed with mgetty.
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Last Updated November 4, 1995 by SJP