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Software tips – ZyXEL Communications 2864 User Manual

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Your

/etc/gettydefs

should contain a number of definitions appropriate for

your purpose. Choose or create one for a multi-speed modem with hardware-hand-
shaking (if your cable supports this).

Remember that the name tag must be the same as in

/etc/initttab

. A possible

entry in

/etc/gettydefs

might be:

MMULTI# B38400 CS8 CRTSCTS # B38400 SANE -ISTRIP HUP HUPCL

CRTSCTS #@S login: #38400

(The above two lines are a single entry.)

Software Tips

In order to use your ZyXEL modem from a terminal screen or an X-Windows ap-
plication, you need a program such as

minicom

or

seyon

, respectively.

If you wish to make use of the ZyXEL modem' special features such as voice, special
gettys such as

mgetty

or

vgetty

are needed. These programs are avaible from sev-

eral ftp-sites. Some archives also contain source files.

You should suppress the modem's result codes (

ATQ2

) from the 2864 series mo-

dems because some applications may be irritated by them.

Disabling throughput averaging (

ATS42.1=0

) may speed up connections with

powerful workstations.