Thanks for all the replies. The answer was indeed in the X commands. X2 will
tell the modem to ignore the busy signals and keep on trucking. Not sure what
happens if the damn thing is busy but that is for another day. It should not
be an issue in the field anyway.
Now if I can just find out why ifdown ppp0 does not bring the link down I will
be jammin'. Hi ho, hi ho, its off to the archives I go :-)
Bret
Chris Dowling wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> > At 03:54 PM 4/25/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > >I am setting up a test lab to be able to test the ppp setup that we are
> > >gong to be using to communicate to remote sites. I am behind a
> > >panasonic phone system and have the two modems that are going to be
> > >communicating on different extensions. I can dial out and get the other
> > >to ring but the intercom call (dial ext number only) results in a dual
> > >ring that the modem is interpreting as busy. Both of these modem behave
> > >the same way. No big supriize since they are both US Robotics modems
> > >but of different vintages. I do not even know what they are just that
> > >they are US robotics at least 28.8s.
> > >
> > >Is there anyway to tell the modem to wait a bit before giving up on the
> > >busy? I would even be happy to be able to tell it don't worry about the
> > >busy at this point.
> > >
> > >Any help appreciated,
> > >
> > >I skimmed the modem howto and could find no reference to this sort of
> > >issue.
> > >
> > >BTW a linksys combo card in my laptop has no problem dialing into the
> > >remote computer via the intercom feature of the phone system.
> > >
> > >Bret
> > >
> > Look at the At commands for the modem. There may be a way to change the
> > busy detection with one of the S registers. You may also be able to do
> > something with the X commands, but it has ben too long sense I had to
> > play with this, so I don't remember...
> >
> > Mikkel
>
> if you add X3 to your init string and it will force the modem to not wait
> for a dial tone.
>
> Chris Dowling.
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