Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr
From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Break definition (Some Answers from the Standards, LONG)
Message-ID: <4764@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 03:11:06 GMT
References: <402@ucrmath.UUCP> <6095@galbp.LBP.HARRIS.COM> <39157@pyramid.pyramid.com> <10607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <10607@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven Bellovin[jsw]) writes:
> My thanks to csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) for an
> excellent article.  One point I should add:  many (most? all?) modems
> use a ``long break'' -- on the order of 3 seconds -- to indicate
> disconnect.

It might be more accurate to state that most "traditional" modems have
this as one of their AT&T modem compatible strapping options.  It's
normally called "long space disconnect" though...  Most modems are
configured to disconnect after n seconds without carrier, making the
option a somewhat passe.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)