Re: Access to the net. (fwd)
Travis Mikalson (tmikalson@terranova.net)
Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:21:03 -0500
MegaZone wrote:
>
> Once upon a time alexm@agetech.net shaped the electrons to say...
> >> Once upon a time alexm@agetech.net shaped the electrons to say...
> >> > Async Map: L:00000000 R:ffffffff 00000000
> >Give me quick explanation of what the Async map is in a nutshell and how
> >he can
>
> It is part of PPP. If the connection is not clear control characters can
> be trashed. So PPP has the ability to escape them. Exactly what is
> escaped is set with the async map. 00000000 is nothing escaped, ffffffff is
> everything escaped. Please don't ask me what all the intermediate steps
> are. :-) The PPP spec explains it in more detail.
>
> As for how to fix it - I can't help you there. It seems every dialer
> package is different.
>
> Escaping everything is probably going to halve his throughput.
>
> > This is what a dialup account looks like is it ok?
> >Async Map: L:00000000 R:000a0000 00000000
>
> Win95, right? Win95 seems to default to that mask. I believe that
> mask escapes XON/XOFF. Unnecessary if the connection is configured
> properly. But not a major throughput drain and it is idiot proof that
> way. If the end user sets XON/XOFF on their modem, it won't choke the
> link.
>
> -MZ
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No, this is a FreeBSD machine running GateD and kernel ppp through an
analog connection.
I am the person Alex is referring to as his dialup, btw ;)
We're set to RTS/CTS flow control on our end...
I haven't done anything strange to my ppp configuration in the least on
this end.
Travis Mikalson