Path: utzoo!attcan!nebulus!tslanpar!ram
From: ram@tslanpar.UUCP (ram)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: MNP Auto-Reliable + getty: happy accident or design?
Summary: MNP and Serial Port speed
Keywords: MNP Baud Rate Locking
Message-ID: <135@tslanpar.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 13:22:15 GMT
References: <13575@steinmetz.ge.com> <260@jwt.UUCP> <565@aablue.UUCP>
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Organization: TSLanpar,Toronto,Ontario
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In article <565@aablue.UUCP>, jb@aablue.UUCP (John B Scalia) writes:
> In article <260@jwt.UUCP> john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
> >Don't MNP modems let you lock the interface speed to the computer like the
> >Trailblazer does?  Seems like this would eliminate the problem, since getty
> >only has to deal with one baud rate.
> 
> They should be able to do this. I can only speak for Multitech units, but as
> the owner of a 224EH with MNP 5, I know it can be locked at a fixed speed to
> communicate with the CPU.

Microcom's AX line of modems also allow the serial port to be set to a fixed
speed.  I currently have my 9624s set to run the serial port at a constant
19.2 Kbaud.  And yes, it does eliminate the problem with getty.

Regards,
Richard Meesters