jhc@mtung.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) (05/24/85)
<> Before we installed hardware flow control between our VAXen and our Net/One installation we were running uucp quite happily over the network. Here's how: 1) Dedicate dial-in and dial-out ports. The dial-out ports should have the getty's turned off; the dial-ins should have special names. We also installed a check program that only allowed uucp and administrators to log in on these ports. 2) Turn flow control off on these ports. 3) Set a buffersize of 128 (or whatever your uucp packet size is) on the ports. 4) Away you go. Steps 2 and 3 have to be done on the U/B port configuration, obviously. Some characters will inevitably get dropped but uucp will recover these. This set-up worked fine for months until we put up hardware flow control. The same trick won't work on a Sytek LocalNet as you can't control the buffer size, but you night play with screwing down the idle timer. It will work (I presume) with an Interlan NTS-10 installation. -- Jonathan Clark [NAC]!mtung!jhc