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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: problems with uucp
Keywords: alarms
Message-ID: <269@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 89 06:38:04 GMT
References: <1526@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
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Organization: Departement fuer Informatik, ETH Zuerich
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In article <1526@infmx.UUCP> jms@infmx.UUCP (John Stephens) writes:
[...]
>After negotiating a login and begining the protocol, we are getting
>a number of alarms instead of packet completions (CY ?).  This occurs
>at random times, early in the transmission and both when sending and

It sounds like someone or something has flow control set to XON.  These
symptoms are identical to my problem when the broadband net police here 
turn flow control on.   -Mitch

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-Mitchell F. Wyle
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch 
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