[hylafax-devel] Re: config/usr-xon & usr-rts

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@bellatlantic.net>]

On 23 Jun 2000, Dmitry Bely wrote:

> Steve Williams <steve@genie96.com> writes:
> 
> > Some modems MUST be in class 0 in order to do adaptave answering.
> 
> Perhaps it is really so (could you name any such modem?), but the standard
> thinks quite different:

Unfortunately, many chipsets do not implement the standard correctly. The
Rockwell chipset in the old 14.4 Zoom modems is an example.

> > I don't know if that is the case for the USR modems, as they are such
> > crap I have never bought one!
> 
> They *work* *good* in Class1. 

If you don't get the ones with the undisclosed flow control bug (33.6
internals, which were for some reason always on sale really cheap after
the bug was discovered).

> > BTW, I believe that adaptive answer should *not* be enabled in the
> > supplied configs by default. Currently this is not true for many

I agree completely with this. It's a serious potential security
hole to add a dial-up line without the user's specific interaction.




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