MNP Auto-Reliable + getty: happy accident or design?

[Jim Rosenberg]

In article <13575 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  I have had really bad luck autobauding with MNP modems. They seem to
>eat the BREAK sent by uucp to force baudrate change. Fortunately other
>characters seem to work, but I don't see any incoming data when sending
>BREAK.

I will not profess to be a complete wizard on this subject, but I think the
trick to getting BREAK to work with MNP is to put enough delays into your
send sequence that the MNP handshake has had a chance to succeed or fail.  I
run a link with cgh.  Paul Homchick (cgh!paul) instructed all his net neighbors
to be sure to put some delays before sending a BREAK when he ran an MNP modem.
I had my system set up so it wouldn't send BREAK til the first timeout, & that
always worked just fine.

What has me puzzled is just how MNP seems to toggle getty *WITHOUT SENDING* the
BREAK.
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Jim Rosenberg                        pitt
Oglevee Computer Systems                 >--!amanue!oglvee!jr
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