Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!evax!utacfd!letni!texsun!convex!poorman From: poorman@convex.com (Peter W. Poorman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco Subject: Re: flow control on terminal server Keywords: flow control hardware Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 15:58:03 GMT References: <711@uswnvg.UUCP> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: convex1.convex.com In <711@uswnvg.UUCP> rfadler@uswnvg.UUCP (Richard Fadler) writes: >In the documentation for our terminal server it describes how it can perform >hardware flow control on the receiving side but does not say if it will >originate hardware flow control (which of course is what we are interested in). I once called CISCO tech support with this very question. The answer I got was that the CISCO terminal servers do not have a capability for hardware flow control of data input to the CISCO. (Even though the software will let you configure a line for "flowcontrol hardware in".) My application was data-compressing modems. I finally just wired the modem's flow control input to the CISCO DTR output, and quit worrying about it. (Most of the use is just people typing in to terminals anyhow -- the output side was my major concern.) For your application, this probably won't be an acceptable solution. --Pete Poorman poorman@convex.com