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From: rrk@byuvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: DECSERVER 200's and dial in/out modems
Message-ID: <57rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Date: 12 Jan 88 16:23:07 GMT
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Sometimes I get the feeling that noone is listening...or reading their manuals.
I have stated several times that we are working multiple speeds automatically
on dialout from a DEC Server.  If people would read their DECServer manuals,
they would first of all discover, that at least according to DEC, it IS
impossible to support three or more (e.g. 300, 1200, and 2400) dialout speeds
from a DEC Server 200, but it is very easy to get two to work.  Right now,
all we do is allocate a reverse LAT port and go into kermit.  Then we dial
out.  The server will automatically switch between 2400 (set as the primary
outgoing speed) and 1200 (the secondary outgoing speed) without the user
knowing anything, except that the modem sends back a connect message telling
the speed at which connection was accomplished.  Read the orange three-ring
DECServer 200 documentation carefully, and follow the instructions.  It
was so long ago that we set them up, that I don't remember all the steps,
that's what my manual is for.  These modems serve simultaneously as outgoing
and incoming modems, automatically switched by allocating the reverse LAT
or incoming calls (which seem to have full multispeed AUTOBAUD, but I wouldn't
swear it, since our modems don't bother with 300 baud, and from which up
to 8 sessions can be initiated).  Did I leave any holes, so that you still
think my modems don't work from my DECServer 200?  If you have any specifics
you would like to ask about, such as DECServer port characteristics, after
you set it up BY THE BOOK, I would be more than happy to send them to you,
although I can tell you before hand, that it was done BY THE BOOK.  Try
it.

                                Ray Whitmer
                                AMMON::RAY