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From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: TB 2500 query
Message-ID: <322@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 89 14:15:37 GMT
References: <4946@orca.WV.TEK.COM> <848@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> <4974@orca.WV.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <4974@orca.WV.TEK.COM> jeffg@orca.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff C. Glover) writes:
|Earlier I posted an article where I asked about how to get the TB 2500
|to do a reset on loss of *carrier*.  Everybody that replied told me how
|to do a reset on loss of *DTR*.  A few implied I should RTFM.  I did
|read the _FM_!  Again, I want a reset on loss of carrier, not DTR.  The
|modem is on the far end of a chain of networks (ethernet to appletalk
|to RS232), and DTR just isn't available.
|
|It looks like it just isn't possible.  The 2400 baud modem that I used
|before has this feature, and it only cost $129.

You could always try wiring pin 8 to pin 20 and then programming the
TB to be in leave_carrier_detect_high_except_momentarily_after_losing_carrier
mode.

Of course if it drops CD momentarily while resetting you could get into
an infinite loop...

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