bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (02/16/88)
I'm looking for information in getting a
Telebit trailblazer modem and using it with
Apollo UUCP (SR 9.6). Is there anyone out there
who is doing this at the moment? Apollo UUCP
says they only support Hayes, Vadic, and
Ventic modems but is there a way with the
L.sys file to fake it out???
--
Vince Skahan Boeing Computer Services - Phila.
(215) 591-4116 INTERNET: bcs212%psev@boeing.com
UUCP: {...rutgers!bpa!}vader!bcs212 bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) (02/24/88)
In article <121@vader.UUCP>, bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes: > > I'm looking for information in getting a > Telebit trailblazer modem and using it with > Apollo UUCP (SR 9.6). Is there anyone out there > who is doing this at the moment? Apollo UUCP > says they only support Hayes, Vadic, and > Ventic modems but is there a way with the > L.sys file to fake it out??? > -- > ====> sorry folks, I didn't know that blazers were Hayes-compatible. For the record, I got a couple of evaluation modems from the local Telebit distributor and they came up quite nicely and very easily reached 18000+ for mailing ~25000 byte files. Only detail is that Apollo UUCP won't take a speed above 9600 in the L.sys and L-devices files (but the trailblazer figures out it's talking to another one and kicks in PEP mode). I haven't tried compresses news over a trailblazer but I have no reason to believe that won't be equally as good. -- Vince Skahan Boeing Computer Services - Phila. (215) 591-4116 INTERNET: bcs212%psev@boeing.com UUCP: {...rutgers!bpa!}vader!bcs212
grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (02/27/88)
In article <130@vader.UUCP> bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes: > > For the record, I got a couple of evaluation modems from > the local Telebit distributor and they came up quite nicely and > very easily reached 18000+ for mailing ~25000 byte files. Only detail > is that Apollo UUCP won't take a speed above 9600 in the L.sys and > L-devices files (but the trailblazer figures out it's talking to > another one and kicks in PEP mode). I haven't tried compresses news > over a trailblazer but I have no reason to believe that won't be > equally as good. Ummm, I suppose to get the 18000+ at a 9600 baud interface rate, you were sending text files and compression is enabled. Using uucp protocols and sending already compressed batches, you'll probably see about a 700-800 char/sec overall transfer rate at 9600 bps. Nothing to complain about, but you'd get at least a 50% improvment by jacking up the interface rate to 19200 bps. I'd contact Apollo and see if they can do something about the 19200. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|ihnp4|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)
rimbold@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu (Rob Rimbold) (02/28/88)
In article <3381@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >In article <130@vader.UUCP> bcs212@vader.UUCP (Vince Skahan) writes: >> >> [..stuff deleted..] Only detail >> is that Apollo UUCP won't take a speed above 9600 in the L.sys and >> L-devices files [..stuff deleted..] > > [..stuff deleted..] I'd contact Apollo and see if >they can do something about the 19200. I doubt that they will. It's a generic problem with UUCP. When I was first setting up UUCP on my (dare I say it :-) Sun, I had the same problem. I wanted to use 19200, since we have a physical line to our UUCP partner, but the UUCP implementation didn't want to handle it.. The partial solution was to add a gettytab entry for the speed 19200, and change your incoming port in ttys to use 19200. That way, incoming calls can be had at 19200, but you're still stuck with 9600 for outgoing ones. BTW: It took Sun about a week to figure out that UUCP wouldn't handle 19200, and that the problem wasn't in my configuration.. :-) -- 'Rob Usenet: rimbold@dino.ulowell.edu AT&T : (617) 452-5000 x2693 University of Lowell Productivity Center, Lowell MA.