On Sat, Jan 17, 1998 at 10:39:41AM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> A serial connection at 57600 would probably be ok for low-graphics X, but
> I'm not sure how well the SE/30 would handle the 57600 baud. I'd really
> recomend an ethernet card, if you can find one. If not, be sure to use a
> hardware-handshaking cable between the macs (a printer cable is perfect),
> and set the "local" flag in /etc/ttys. And turn on both DTR and CTS
> handshaking in PPP under MacOS.

Eh? Doesn't /etc/ttys only get used by getty processes? On my system, I
have tty00 marked as off, but its other settings include a speed of 19200,
which is half of what I run on that port for my SLIP connection.

If /etc/ttys is used by other programs, I'd love to know which... If PPP
uses the file, maybe my current settings are the reason why I get SILO
overflows with my PPP connection. (Incidentally, my in-house SLIP connection
gets beaten a lot harder, and it runs at a faster speed, and despite this,
it *never* gets SILO overflows, even when the PPP connection is getting
them while both protocols are active at once.)

Thanks in advance for clues.

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