UUCP troubles

[Mark Lawrence]

I've a 7300 at home running 3.51 and a bevy of Suns at work running
SunOS 4.0.3 (old style uucp) using the internal 1200 bps modem on the
7300 and a choice of a USR 2400 or Telebit on the work machines.

When initially configured, uucp seemed to be fairly reliable, but now
days seem to go by with the errors (attached at the end of this note)
before a poll seems to hit 'just right' and the traffic flows.

I can cu/tip from the Sun->7300 with no difficulty.
I can cu from the 7300->Sun with no difficulty but it hangs immediately
upon login (after I select the terminal type).  Some of the login
message gets printed to the screen as if they are control characters.

>From the 7300, I've tried cu -o and cu -e but it has no affect.

It seems to me that some serial line paramter that I've got set up on the
sun box has to be the culprit, but what?  UUCP with my internet MX host
and other UUCP sites works just fine.

Is it the internal modem on the 7300?  Is it 'known' to be flaky?

Errors follow.  Any suggestions appreciated.

--log of poll of tulsix->drd that hung

uucp drd  (1/29-7:26:28,7920,0) SUCCEEDED (call to drd )
uucp drd  (1/29-7:26:33,7920,0) OK (startup)
uucp drd drdN602e (1/29-7:26:33,7920,0) REQUEST (tulsix!D.tulsi225b0c8 --> drd!D.tulsi225b0c8 (uucp))
uucp drd drdN602e (1/29-7:29:01,7920,1) BAD READ (expected 'S' got FAIL)
uucp drd drdN602e (1/29-7:29:01,7920,1) FAILED (conversation complete)

--log of poll of tulsix->drd two days later that seemed to hit just right

uucp drd  (1/31-10:28:12,9556,0) SUCCEEDED (call to drd )
uucp drd  (1/31-10:28:19,9556,0) OK (startup)
uucp drd drdN602e (1/31-10:28:19,9556,0) REQUEST (tulsix!D.tulsi225b0c8 --> drd!D.tulsi225b0c8 (uucp))
uucp drd drdN602e (1/31-10:28:25,9556,1) REQUEST (tulsix!D.drd602e0c8 --> drd!X.drdN602e (uucp))
...
uucp drd  (1/31-10:35:20,9556,40) OK (conversation complete ph1 556)


-- log of uucico with -x5 poll from drd->tulsix

finds called
getto called
call: no. 7488558 for sys tulsix Dial 7488558
Using dialer type ACUHAYES
dialing Hayes
0\015ACU write ok
5\015dcr returned as 6
login called
wanted in: got ?
send
wanted in: \015\012\015\015\012\015\012Welcome to the AT&T UNIX pc\015\012\015\0
12Please login:got that
send luvnhugs
msg-ROK
 Rmtname tulsix, Role MASTER,  Ifn - 6, Loginuser - mark
rmesg - 'P' got Pg
wmesg 'U'g
Proto started g
protocol g
*** TOP ***  -  role=1, wrktype - S
 wmesg 'S' D.tulsixB12e2 D.tulsixB1
rmesg - 'S' alarm 1
alarm 2
...
alarm 10

and it exits.
-- 
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