UUCP Protocol Problems between AT&T Unix and SCO Xenix

neal at mnopltd.UUCP neal at mnopltd.UUCP
Sat Apr 13 10:48:54 AEST 1991


->In article <192 at mnopltd.UUCP> emory!mnopltd!neal writes:
->>
->>Lets not start any Xenophobic wars over this. 
->	Fair enough...
->>Our System is Xenix 2.3.2. (the HDB version)  It converses with dozens 
->>of other Unix and Xenix systems.
->>
->>We are trying to connect System X as a leaf node.  It is running an 
->>AT&T 386 running AT&T Unix 3.2.2.   They do not as of yet converse with 
->>anybody.   After doing all the configurational poop, we find that 
->>sessions fail in both directions.
->>
->>If Xenix calls AT&T Unix, we go through the login, startup, but fail to 
->>establish the 'g' protocol.  The sequence of log stuff is:
->      [stuff deleted from the Uutry log]
->
->>Sounds like we have a protocol incompatibility between the two, and I don't see
->>anything left for me to adjust.   Anyone seen it and/or a correction to either
->>uucp to fix?
->
->I have seen this quite a few times, especially with MNP Modems.  Make sure
->that your Devices and Dialers files are correct - in every case, that is
->where the changes are made to correct the above mentioned trouble.
->
->It seems that the script that AT&T put in for their own 2224CEO gives you
->only *one* choice, yet the modem/BNU can be optioned for about six different
->modes (e,g,u).  Hack away at those two files.  One symptom is that 'cu'
->works fine both in/out, and that you can send files but not receive (on
->about 50% of the cases.)

Thanks to everyone that responded here.   It turned out to be the AT&T 2224CEO
modem.  Once I went out to the other site, I noticed it defaults to provide
Xon/Xoff on the modem side, and the Dialers script does not turn it off. 

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