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- From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
- Subject: older UDS modems' problems with PPP fixed
- Message-ID: <BOB.92Jul24134340@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
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- Organization: Morning Star Technologies
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:43:47 GMT
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-
- In March, I reported to our ppp-users mailing list, and (I think) on
- comp.dcom.modems, that our customers had seen problems using PPP
- across UDS V.3224 and V.3224 modems when their MNP was enabled. There
- seemed to be a pattern-specific data-mangling bug in the modems' ROM
- MNP implementation, that only emerged when confronted with the
- sequence that comprised the opening octets of an incoming PPP LCP
- Configure-Request packet. This will happen with any PPP
- implementation, not just our company's product. We began recommending
- that users disable those modems' MNP4/MNP5 functions for PPP traffic.
-
- Someone noticed my message and passed it along to the spouse of a
- colleague's second cousin's housekeeper's bowling buddy's... who works
- at UDS. Frankly, I was pleasantly surprised to get a call from Marty
- Weaver at UDS, who took the problem seriously and worked hard to
- reproduce it. Then he managed to persuade the UDS hierarchy that it
- was worth investing the engineering time to fix their older-model
- modems, even though the problem had only been reported with this one
- application (PPP), and only third-hand, and only by someone who didn't
- even own a UDS modem (me).
-
- They recently sent along the following note, indicating that it was to
- be redistributed to anyone who might be affected:
-
- "An incompatibility has recently been discovered when a UDS V.3225
- modem running MNP is used in a specific asynchronous application.
- Changing async character format after a call has been established
- will result in incorrect data characters being received. This will
- occur when a call is established by AT dialing at 7E1 (7 data, even
- parity, 1 stop) and then changing to 8N1 once the modems have gone
- "ON LINE." This incompatibility exists only when MNP is enabled
- and only on V.3225 modems with firmware versions prior to 2.08.08.
- When equipped with 2.08.08 the modem can be enabled to pass the
- parity bit unchanged by setting S72, bit 5 (decimal 32). UDS
- Motorola will provide an upgrade to 2.08.08 for users with this
- particular application. For further information contact UDS
- Technical Support at 1-800-221-4380."
-
- Kudos to UDS for their prompt attention and thorough resolution to
- this problem!
-