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- From: Petty@ralvm29.VNET.IBM.COM (Jack Petty)
- Message-ID: <19920909.101849.336@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:13:51 EDT
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: IBM 7855-10 Disconnect at Phone Pick-Up
- Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
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- In <9209090702.AA17611@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> ST7021@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU writes:
- >
- > o Is this some V.32(bis) thing (my old Hayes VS9600 doesn't do this at
- > 9600)?
- Thomas,
- That's right. The "Retrain" message on the front panel means the 7855
- is doing the V.32 retrain thing. Two things can produce that message:
- The 7855 is trying to recover from what it thinks of as a bad line or,
- The local DTE has told the 7855 to go on-hook and the 7855 is
- signalling that fact to the other modem.
- You can differentiate between the two cases by temporarily setting the
- 7855 to ignore local disconnect attempts. You can use &D0 if your local
- DTE drops DTR to do a disconnect or you can change register S2 to 255
- if your DTE sends an escape sequence to initiate a disconnect. Change
- both settings if you don't know what your local DTE does and remember to
- reverse the changes later. I suggest you make these changes and re-try
- to see if the symptoms change.
-
- If your re-train setting is at the factory default, the 7855 will
- normally try to recover a "bad" line for 30 seconds. You can look at
- the results of a \S and then \S1 command to see the complete modem setup.
-
- > o Could it be interpreting the drop in volume (or whatever) as a Break
- > signal? Would that be relevant?
- Thomas,
- Not likely.
-
- > o Is there a register that I can alter that will make it more tolerant
- > to this?
- Thomas,
- I can't answer this one until we understand more about what is going on.
- There are some V.32 modems that do not respond to a V.32 re-train but
- I certainly hope those are a minority.
- >
- >I can understand how rough a local line pick-up can be on the carrier, but I
- >was hoping the error correction would be a bit more fault tolerant.
- Thomas,
- Good point. Is there a difference in behavior between having ECL turned
- on or off?
- >
- >Thanks for any ideas!
- Thomas,
- If you like, we can call your 7855 from here with a 7855 and see how two
- of them behave when you take an extension off-hook. This would be a
- good thing to do after you determine that your local DTE is not
- instructing the 7855 to go on-hook.
-
- If all else fails...
- You might be able to re-wire your house so the extensions are "behind"
- the modem. In that case, when the modem is off-hook, the extensions
- are dead. There are also devices that attach at each extension and
- allow only one extension at a time to "own" the phone line.
-
- I have seen a number of posts here about modems that go on-hook in
- response to call waiting tones. One real possibility is that many
- V.32 modems do not recover from line glitches.
-
- Jack Petty
-