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- From: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
- Subject: Re: SLIP connection to XYPLEX on modem
- Message-ID: <Qeynki600XQDMLNpJ4@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:46:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.Qeynki600XQDMLNpJ4
- References: <23912@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 30
- In-Reply-To: <23912@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
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- bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
- > OK, I give up.
- >
- > ... but when I connect a modem, all I get on the
- > remote machine is 'bad IP checksum' or 'can't open connection, timeout'.
- >
- > [...]
- >
- > I can see 'ping' packets arrive at the PC, but something is missing
- > 'cause they generate 'bad IP checksum' in TELBIN. If I try to open
- > a connection, I get a 'timeout' almost immediately...
- >
- > So what's the deal? Flow control? The XYPLEX has only 8 wires in its
- > serial connection, so you get DCD/DTR or CTS/RTS, but not both. Does
- > SLIP work with XON/XOFF? well...I guess so, cause it works with the
- > ISBN 'modem'....
-
- SLIP *does not* work with XON/XOFF flow control. IP is a binary
- protocol, and if I want to send you a packet full of XOFF's, you had
- better be prepared to accept it. If your modems are set up to respond
- to XON/XOFF flow control, then SLIP will not work for you -- that's
- all there is to it.
-
- Since you said you were using error-correcting modems (and presumably
- data-compression as well), this implies your throughput is not the
- same as the DTE data rate. So you will need some form of flow
- control, unless you're prepared to suffer from severe data lossage
- which will cause all kinds of TCP retransmits and make most udp
- applications unhappy as well. From the description of your equipment,
- you need to use RTS/CTS flow control.
-