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From: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP modems
Message-ID: <11048@felix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 02:20:08 EST
Article-I.D.: felix.11048
Posted: Thu Oct 29 02:20:08 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 04:43:13 EST
References: <3013@husc6.UUCP> <377@cogent.UUCP> <7660@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <378@cogent.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@felix.UUCP
Reply-To: bytebug@felix.UUCP (Roger L. Long)
Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA
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Keywords: MNP

In article <378@cogent.UUCP> mark@cogent.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
|In article <7660@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
|>In article <377@cogent.UUCP> mark@cogent.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
|>|MNP as a protocol has failed to meet our needs consistently.  Due to several
|>The only problem we have had is calling systems (a) from an MNP modem,
|     ^^^^!?!?!?
|>(b) to a system without an MNP modem, (c) with a brain dead speed detect
|>which gets in a loop when the "are you MNP" message comes in.
|
|Only?!  Only?!  Oh good!  So it is impossible for an MNP modem to log into
|most all UNIX boxes (unless you discard your baud rate selection :-( ).  But
|that's okay!  It is, after all, the *only* problem!  It happened to us also 
|with an MNP on both ends of the connection, by the way.

Our site is using Racal Vadic 2400PA modems which you can set to transmit to
the host computer at some fixed baud rate.  That way, there's no baud rate
selection on the host side, since the modem automatically converts to the
set baud rate.

So what's the big fuss?
--
	Roger L. Long
	FileNet Corp
	{hplabs,trwrb}!felix!bytebug