DecServer 200/300 puts us into PASSALL mode sometimes

[Ian! D. Allen [CGL]]

>We have a number of DecServer 200's and 300's used to connect to
>a number of Vax/VMS, DecStation and Unix machines.  We use the
>Ultrix LAT/Telnet gateway service to connect to Unix machines:
>	"CONNECT TELNET NODE FRED DESTINATION SPOT"
>For some unknown reason this puts us into passall mode more or
>less at random.  Any ideas on why this happens?

Any program on recent Ultrix that does "stty raw" sets the port to PASSALL.  
This includes the getty running at login time that reads your userid.

I asked on Oct 24 in comp.unix.ultrix how to turn it off; nobody knows.
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-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen at watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu
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