uucp Dialout via decserver?

[Stephen Harris]

In article <jeff.8251 at wisdom.UUCP> jeff at wisdom.UUCP (Jeff Ross) writes:
>this weekend, I attempted to get our uucp host to call out via a modem
>(telebit T2500) connected to a decserver 200.  I have been able to 
>accept calls in with no problems.  however, getting calls to go out seems
>to be a little problem.
>
>I have set the decserver for access to be dynamic, I enabled modem control,
>handshakeing is CTS, and characteristics are dialup.  I also set a dedicated
>service to my uucp host.
>
>in order to assign a tty device to the decserver port I did the following:
>
>/etc/lcp -h /dev/tty15:MD2051:PORT_5
>
>when I go to dial, I get a dial failure and uucico aborts.  
>
>any suggestions??? did I miss something simple??

I tried to do the same thing last month but in the end gave up.
When I set the :db: flag in the Dialers script it seemed to me as if the
MicroVax thought that 'cd' was being set when it shouldn't be.
The output went something like:
synching
dialing
cd
nocd
dial failed

cd was being asserted when the modem was preparing to dial, but then dropping
almost straight away.  This caused the dialer to fail even before the modem
had a chance to dial the first digit!
Yet the same configuration worked OK if I plug the modem into a direct serial
port

When I asked Dec UK about this they said something like 'get an extra serial
card.  LAT wasn't designed for the high throughput UUCP can give'.

No, I didn't believe that either!

Sorry I can't help more

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