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PPP connect speed

This is interesting, but hacks ike this can come back to bite you very hard later. It would sem smarter to have fixed the original problem.

As to "nobody in their right mind", well, who would willingly use a dial up modem for server Internet access today?

I do have to wonder what the point of "0 baud" was, though.

From: evanh@sco.COM (Evan Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: MorningStar PPP
Date: 4 Oct 1999 22:30:14 GMT
Message-ID: <7tb9pm$9ca$1@hobbes.sco.com> 


Don't blame me, I voted for Scott Taylor <s.taylor@home.NOT.com>.
>These files make things much clearer.  Well mostly anyhow.  Still don't
>know how to tell what speed I'm connected at.  In pppd.log it says
>"speed index 0" but I can not find anything in the man's for that.  What
>speed is index 0?

38400 baud, I believe.  Isn't that nicely intuitive? :)

This comes from the UUCP dialer.  See, originally, baud rates used
to go up to 19200 and stop.  When the higher rates were added, about
four years ago, older applications that depended on the assumption
that there were exactly 16 baud rates and they could all fit inside
a four-bit number started showing up oddities.  Atdialer is one
of them; it reports the connection speed as the low-order four bits
of its exit value, and the other four bits are used for other things,
so I can't easily fix it.

Fortunately, having speed index 0 or 1 or 2 show up doesn't cause too
much conflict, since nobody in his right mind would actually be *using*
a 0, 50 or 75 baud connection.  So it's safe to just read it as if we'd
retired those useless low speeds and reused them for new fast ones.
The easy way to find out what the actual speed is, is establish a
connection and then run:

# stty -a < /dev/tty1A
                (or whatever tty it is)

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                  Evan Hunt   -   evanh at sco dot com

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