itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) (04/13/90)
robert@woodt.uucp (Robert Sexton) writes: >Has anybody successfully connected two xenix systems witha null-modem cable? >I have had fairly mixed results. In all cases so far, I seem to get one-way >communication, depending on which system starts the conversation. I wish >to use uucp for local mail and printer sharing, but my cables just don't >do the trick. I wish SCO had been a little more verbose about this problem. >their manuals refer me to the serial port manuals. >-- >Robert Sexton, Woodtechnique Inc. >robert@woodt.UUCP ukma!woodt!robert Unless I'm missing something in what Robert's saying, he wants to use ONE cable to connect two XENIX systems in a bidirectional UUCP link. This cannot be done with getty. AT&T systems have something called uugetty that permits this (they sort of handshake and then wait to see who wants to do what). There is probably a PD version of uugetty out there somewhere. The problem with what Robert wants to do is that neither getty knows that it is supposed to ignore what's coming in from the other side. So they are likely to both sit there saying "login:" indefinitely, greatly to the detriment of the performance of the rest of the processes on both systems! -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ : Steven List @ Transact Software, Inc. :^>~ : : Chairman, Unify User Group of Northern California : : {apple,coherent,limbo,mips,pyramid,ubvax}!itkin@guinan.Transact.COM :
fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Irwin M. Fargo) (04/13/90)
In article <1990Apr12.180153.28237@mrspoc.Transact.COM> itkin@guinan.Transact.COM writes: >robert@woodt.uucp (Robert Sexton) writes: > >> [ stuff about setting up Xenix systems via null modem ] > >Unless I'm missing something in what Robert's saying, he wants to use ONE >cable to connect two XENIX systems in a bidirectional UUCP link. This >cannot be done with getty. AT&T systems have something called uugetty >that permits this (they sort of handshake and then wait to see who wants >to do what). There is probably a PD version of uugetty out there somewhere. > Couldn't this setup be done using the built-in Micnet (UNIX net) that SCO provides? I haven't tried setting this up, so I'm not sure what it allows one to do. But it's worth looking into. Hope this helps! Thank you and happy hunting! Actually: Ethan M. Young "If Linus looked like Worf, would you Internet: fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu try to take his blanket away?" Bitnet (??): usergac0@rpitsmts.bitnet - dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu Disclaimer: Who said what?
neal@mnopltd.UUCP (04/13/90)
->
->robert@woodt.uucp (Robert Sexton) writes:
->
->>Has anybody successfully connected two xenix systems witha null-modem cable?
->>I have had fairly mixed results. In all cases so far, I seem to get one-way
->>communication, depending on which system starts the conversation. I wish
->>to use uucp for local mail and printer sharing, but my cables just don't
->>do the trick. I wish SCO had been a little more verbose about this problem.
->>their manuals refer me to the serial port manuals.
->>--
->>Robert Sexton, Woodtechnique Inc.
->>robert@woodt.UUCP ukma!woodt!robert
->
->Unless I'm missing something in what Robert's saying, he wants to use ONE
->cable to connect two XENIX systems in a bidirectional UUCP link. This
->cannot be done with getty. AT&T systems have something called uugetty
->that permits this (they sort of handshake and then wait to see who wants
->to do what). There is probably a PD version of uugetty out there somewhere.
->
->The problem with what Robert wants to do is that neither getty knows that
->it is supposed to ignore what's coming in from the other side. So they
->are likely to both sit there saying "login:" indefinitely, greatly to the
->detriment of the performance of the rest of the processes on both systems!
->--
Yeah. Should he consider dictating whom is the slave and who is master and
make the master poll very regularly (every 10 minutes?)
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