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(ASCEND) Problems using an 1800's K56 modems with uucp



I have configured our uucp system (Taylor uucp v 1.06.1) to use the
k56 modems in our 1800.

cu works great.  

uucp does not.  I see every checksum packet fail.

If I were to guess, I would say I don't have an 8 bit clean data path
through these modems.  Either that or the modem - modem handshaking is
not working.  The remote modems are all Telebit Worldblazer.

This same uucp has been working great for the last few years through a
livingston pm2e with Telebit Worldblazers on both ends.

I have tried two methods of connecting to the modems.

The first (very ugly) way is to use uucp's 'dialer-sequence' feature
to have uucp telnet to the 1800's port 5000.

The second much prettier method is to use Ross Cartlidge's
(rossc@extro.ucc.su.oz) nd/tcpcon package to tie /dev/pty devices to
a tcp host&port.  This is similiar to Livingston's in.pmd mechanism,
though, not quite a slick.

The dial strings I use assume the defaults for the K56 are okay.  In
otherwords, I do not modify the operating parameters at all.

The initial uucp setup, login, command exchange sequence seems to work
okay.  The file transfer starts, then I get a bunch of bad checksums
and the connection is eventually dropped.  This is an example of the
failure...

DEBUG: fiwait_for_packet: Need 74 bytes
DEBUG: fconn_read: Read 157 "\000\210\324\"\343\300\003\000 30\200\220\000\001\002\200\000\004\001\000\000\000@\000\000 00@\000\"h\234#\240 @\000\177\376\001\000\000\000@\000\177\
DEBUG: fiprocess_data: Bad checksum; data 2447691496, frame 4287751374
DEBUG: finak: Sending NAK 3
DEBUG: fconn_io: Writing 6 "\007\030\020p\000x"
DEBUG: fconn_io: Wrote 6 of 6, read 0 of 15813

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