Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sm.unisys.com!csun!srhqla!mml From: mml@srhqla.UUCP (Michael Levin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: Microport 3.0e and the Telebit Trailblazer Message-ID: <313@srhqla.UUCP> Date: 27 Dec 88 22:02:10 GMT References: Reply-To: mml@srhqla.UUCP (Michael Levin) Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles Lines: 43 In article eric@snark.UUCP (EricS.Raymond) writes: >The cost of this >conservatism is that 'Blazers running firmware release 2.2 or older, or >with the S7 carrier wait time set to less than 60 seconds, may not be >able to recognize yours; and you impose a longer handshake sequence (with >increased chance of uucico timeout) on all Trailblazers. The problem with uucico timeout is real, but I prefer a more "head-on" approach to dealing with the issue. Rather than trying to do things that "may" cause a timeout, I simply extend the timeout. The way to do this, assuming you don't have the source-code, is very simple. In the Dialers file, you will have some sort of a line which will probably end with: CONNECT\sFAST Which means "wait until you get the message 'CONNECT FAST' and then you're connected". There is a timeout in uucico, whereby if that message isn't received within that timeout, the script has failed. Try instead, ending with: CONNECT\sFAST-\c-CONNECT\sFAST Which means "wait until you get the message 'CONNECT FAST', but if you time out before you get it, send nothing, and wait for the message "CONNECT FAST". This has the effect of DOUBLING the timeout. You have *already* setup a timeout in the Trailblazer, which will expire sooner than the *doubled* uucico timeout, so all is well. You can also triple, quadruple, etc. as you wish, and control the *actual* timeout with the timer in the modem. Just a little addendum to Eric's masterful posting. Mike Levin -- +----+ P L E A S E R E S P O N D T O: +------+-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Mike Levin, Silent Radio HeadQuarters, Los Angeles (srhqla) | No room for a * | Path:{aeras|csun|pacbell|pyramid|telebit}!srhqla!levin |'snappy remark'* +-------------------------------------------------------------+-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*