Re: (PM) USR modem <-> PM3 problems still? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Thu, 13 Nov 1997 14:26:48 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Miquel van Smoorenburg shaped the electrons to say...
>You're going to hate me for this, but how come our old analog Microcom
>modems have no problem with it? Are the Microcoms really implementing a
>broken V.42 so that they can talk to USRs ?

1. You might not have any USRs with the bug - the apparently fixed it
fast.
2. Luck. The problem has been reported with Livingstons, Ascends, Ciscos,
and even USR TCs.

>How about an option to turn this "broken" behaviour on/off ?

Let's say very, very unlikely.

-MZ

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