Setting up a PPP server for OS X 10.3 clients

Longman, Bill longman at sharplabs.com
Mon Oct 4 13:06:21 MDT 2004


> Unfortunately, that I'm not 100% sure of. Given that we 
> haven't set up 
> an external modem at work in probably a couple of years, the 
> modem came 
> out of one box and the cable came out of another. :-(  I do have a 
> Global Village Teleport 33.6 Speakerphone Edition in it's 
> original box 
> that I can try instead. Unfortunately, can't just use it's cable with 
> the faster USRobotics modem as the modem end of the cable is a 
> different connector. I did find the a manual for the USR this 
> morning...I can switch the initialization string to enable software 
> flow control and see if that helps.

Not a good idea to use sw handshake above 19.200. You might want to have a
look at the modem NVRAM settings. If your cable doesn't have the wiring for
hw handshake, you'll have to use sw handshake but you *will* lose
characters. Stupid 232....


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