Re: 2.0.30 serial.c, ppp.c and pppd-2.2 questions

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:26:34 +0200


On Jul 22, Rob Riggs wrote:

> I have... the problem isn't that I am overflowing the UART FIFOs.
> I have 16650 UARTs and I have enabled automatic flow contol on
> them. It can automatically throttle the flow when the FIFOs get
> too full.

assuming that the sending side adheres the handshake signal fast enough
(or at all!). this is not true for all devices!

you should check/report FIFO overflow condition if you want to be sure...
just thinking...

Harald

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