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From: Bob Sutterfield
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:30

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In article <1992Apr12.101725.10447@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> cds@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris D. L. Swanson) writes:
   ...since SLIP and PPP need 8 bit clean paths, XON/XOFF is also
   rulled out, making the use of compression modems that lock DTE
   speed and float DCE speed impossible - or am I missing something)?

SLIP may have problems over connections that feature XON/XOFF at some
part of the link.  With PPP, you can just OR 0x000A0000 into the
requested Async-Control-Character-Map, and any ^S or ^Q character in
the data stream will be transmogrified into a two-byte pair before
transmission, then returned to the normal single character upon
reception.

It's better to use RTS/CTS "hardware" flow control between your modems
and DTEs if you can, but XON/XOFF "software" flow control will work
well enough for PPP traffic.

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