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From: peter@citcom.UUCP (Peter Klosky)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Help with incoming modems and getty urgently requested!
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 15:31:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 28 15:31:15 1987
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> the line, I see that it is repeatedly sending the login banner. 

Some unix admin people call this a "getty war."  It is possible to get
this behaviour when you connect one computer to another with an rs-232
null modem cable; one computer's login message is thought by the other 
computer to be a login name a user typed, and the other side thinks
the same thing.  If you have to use this type of cable, consider
running serial line ip, so people can log in from either end.  Otherwise
one one person can be logged in using the line, and only one computer
can use the line, the other end has to run a getty.  If the distance
is short, consider an ethernet.  Of course, this is not related to
your actual problem, but I thought I'd bring it up in case anyone
knows how to get a two way connection going on a serial line without
serial line ip; not supported in all versions of unix.
-- 
Peter Klosky, Citcom Systems (materiel de telecommunications)
seismo!vrdxhq!baskin!citcom!peter (703) 689-2800 x 235