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From: rdg@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Hardware flow control from S300
Message-ID: <5570030@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Apr 88 23:41:04 GMT
References: <398@encad.Wichita.NCR.COM>
Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> According to the HP 4951 protocol analyzer the HP tries to stop the data by
> sending XOFF but the NIU is ignoring it, thus data overrun.

UUCP turns off flow control for g-protocol, so somebody must be turning
it back on. Are you sure it's not the UB generating the XOFF's? If your
link is (fairly) reliable, why not try f-protocol? It *likes* to
use XON/XOFF.


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