[H-GEN] Mail problems.......*almost* solved

[Robert Brockway]

On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Michael Anthon wrote:

> Right, more fiddling tonight haas improved matters significantly.  I reset 
> the modem to factory defaults and started from scratch, double checking all 
> the settings.

Good idea.
 
> Further reading of the pppd manual indicated that NOT specifying anything 
> for asyncmap will force it to escape ALL characters, so I tried this as 
> well.  Using the RedHat config under X and setting the option that says to 
> escape all characters sets the pppd option "asyncmap 00000000" which, 
>  unless I misread the manual, means the NO characters get escaped !!!!????? 

asyncmap 0 is what you want.  Very few people want pppd to escape 
anything.

> Am I missing something here?  Turning the option off in the setup gives no 
> asyncmap option in the pppd call.

I must admit I am surprised that leaving asyncmap out causes all
characters to be escaped.  All the more reason to make sure it is on :)

> Definitely not line noise.  I had and still have error correction enabled 
> and I know the dataplex modems are VERY good when it comes to this.

Unfortunately you can't be so sure it _isn't_ line noise.  Error
correction can only fix an error of a certain degree before ppp has to ask
for a resend.  If the errors are bad enough error correction will fail
and resends will be needed.

Having said that, I don't think line noise is the main reason, but I keep
it in the back of my mind.
 
> configuration.  Even got a trip to Malaysia to fix a modem problem over 
> there (which turned out to be a cable fault !!!!)

That'd be cool :)
Cheers,
	-Robert

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