Article 43857 of comp.unix.solaris: Path: mri.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!news.aimnet.com!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!batnet!usenet@batnet.com From: Celeste Stokely Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Tip utility "link down" Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:12:27 -0700 Organization: Stokely Consulting Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3225B35B.6F63@stokely.com> References: <322464D3.64B1@bnr.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: celestial.stokely.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) To: Jim Hu Jim Hu wrote: > When I used the "tip" utility to connect the tty port of one > Sparcstation (running Solaris 2.5.1) to a serial port which had a > VT100 session running via direct RS232 connection. I could see the > session run on the Sparcstation in the window I ran tip. > Later on, that session get freezed for some reason. I had to close > the window to get out of it. The next time I started the tip, there > was this "link down" message and the tip could not get through. > > Someone suggested using "ttysoftcar -y /dev/ttya" to ignore the > carrier detect signal. However, ttysoftcar is a SUN OS command, not > a Solaris command. > Probably, the port monitor is not set for software carrier detect. See my Solaris modem/terminal tutorial at http://www.stokely.com to set up Solaris for your terminal. ..Celeste Stokely, Unix System Administration Consultant Stokely Consulting, 211 Thompson Square, Mountain View CA 94043 Voice: 415.967.6898 - FAX: 415.967.0160 celeste@stokely.com - http://www.stokely.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Celeste's Tutorials on Solaris 2.x/SunOS 4.1.3+ Modems & Terminals http://www.stokely.com or ftp.batnet.com:/pub/wombats/stokely/ftp See our Web pages for lots of Unix Serial Port & Sysadm Resources! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -