SunOS 4.0 dialin/dialout

[Steve Jay]

In v7n67, Charlie Dennett (dennett at kodak.com) describes a situation where
a modem in his office can't dial successfully to the modem connected to
his Sun, but calling from home works.

This may be a strictly modem/phone-line weirdness, having nothing to do
with the Sun.  Some modems have a feature called "call-progress detection"
whereby they listen on the phone line for ringing, busy signals, and dial
tones so they can give you the progress of the call.  Unfortunately, some
of these modems get confused if they hear the answer tone BEFORE hearing
at least one ring.  Some newer phone systems will ring the called phone
before they send the ring sound to the caller.  So, particularly on
internal calls where there are mimimal delays, the called modem may answer
and send its tone before the calling modem has heard a ring.  Some modems
will not recognize the answer tone in this situation.

The timing of calls which come in from outside the local phone system is
such that the caller always hears at least one ring.  This may explain why
you can call from home, but not from your office.

Check the manual for the calling modem...it probably tells how to disable
the "call-progress" feature.  With that feature disabled, the office ->
Sun connection may start working.

I got this information from article <505 at drilex.UUCP>, dated 20 Mar 88, in
comp.dcom.modems, sent by {harvard!axiom,linus!axiom,ll-xn}!drilex!dricej
(Craig Jackson).

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