Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!ht!spt!mcp!mdc From: mdc@mcp.entity.com (Marty Connor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Configuring Xenix for 1200/2400 baud access, uucp log management Message-ID: <165@mcp.entity.com> Date: 17 Apr 88 19:41:35 GMT References: <151@amcad.UUCP> <10387@steinmetz.ge.com> Distribution: na Lines: 44 Summary: gettydefs tweak for greater glory In article <10387@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes: > B) unless there is a political reason for doing things low to high, > change the speeds to cycle from highest to lowest, repeating the first > one. This takes care of connect noise. I have been running a BBS for > several years, and I use 2400-2400-1200-300 without problems. It will > require minor changes in others login scripts if they're still using > 1200. > "We've got to stop meeting like this." I was trying to call up random at 1200 baud on its 2400 baud modems today and was having a lot of trouble getting the autobauding to work right. After reading your message it occured to me that the /etc/gettydefs file was set up to do: 2400-300-1200, so if a person dialed in at 1200 he or she had to hit break twice (and this didn't work right 100% of the time either!). so I made the relevant gettydefs lines look like: # # 3-2-1: 2400 - 1200 - 300 baud cycle (dialin modems) # 1 # B300 HUPCL OPOST CR1 NL1 # B300 CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 3 2 # B1200 HUPCL OPOST CR1 ECHOE NL1 # B1200 CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 1 3 # B2400 HUPCL OPOST CR1 ECHOE NL1 # B2400 CS8 SANE HUPCL TAB3 ECHOE IXANY #\r\n@!login: # 2 so that when you call in, you get a getty listening at 2400 baud, and then 1200, and then 300. Makes a little more sense. If you have people complaining that reaching your system at 1200 baud is a pain, you might try this little tweak to your gettydefs file. Double your money back guarantee. ahem. Anyway, random.entity.com and mcp.entity.com seem to like it... -- ---------------- Marty Connor Director of Innovation, The Entity mdc@mcp.entity.com, ...{harvard|uunet}!mit-eddie!spt!mcp!mdc