Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!axcess!allbery
From: allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Query about the quality of UNIX/PCs and 3b1's (really 3b1 unix)
Summary: That may be part of it, but assuredly not all:  I never allow dialins.
Message-ID: <133@axcess.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 14:07:57 GMT
References: <9691@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <18017@clyde.ATT.COM> <997@bakerst.UUCP> <912@neoucom.UUCP>
Organization: aXcess Company, Mentor, Ohio
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In article <912@neoucom.UUCP>, wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
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| then.  AT&T told me that they are beginning to suspect that there
| are some bugs in the serial/phone port driver(s) in the kernel.
| Apparently, the driver starts generating interrupts like mad if it
| receives a longbreak signal just at the end of a conversation.
| 
| Looks like a temporary work-around would be to never let anybody
| call *in to* your 3b1.  (If you are using 3.51)
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Hmmm.  I have yet to allow dialins on my 3b1 (too little security), yet I have
had one crash and some near misses.  Maybe it's a combination of bugs?
Certainly the printer on my 3b1 SEEMS to be the cause....
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