Re: has anybody ever seen this?

Robert Shady (rls@kilroy.id.net)
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 13:21:10 -0500 (EST)

> > > > S10 ATS0?S2?S3?S4?S - Log/Net In USERNAME 0 0
> > >
> > > Well, the first one certainly looks like someone may have been attempting
> > > to put your modem in a command state and then query the registers. I
> > > assume you have a security feature on your modem or have changed the
> > > attention signal from +++, so this shouldn't be very sucessful.
> >
> > I'd be more willing to bet that the user on the other side doesn't realize
> > that they're connected, and their software tried sending the modem init
> > strings. I've seen it happen several times.
>
> Except that the ?'s would represent register queries rather than init
> commands.

Why would anyone care what the S0 register is set to? Let alone 1/2 of
the other ones?

-- Rob
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