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Re: Wardialing - Odd Results
From: "Champ Clark [Vistech]" <champ () bundy vistech net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:11:25 -0400
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:57:24AM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:43:32AM -0700, Atom Powers wrote:I've seen this if the data rate for the system you are dialing in to and the program you are using are not in synch. For instance, if the system you are dialing to is 9600bps and you have your hyperterminal set to
Any mis-configured serial port settings (baud, parity, data bits, stop bits) can cause this behaviour. In /general/, the hyperterminal default settings of 8/N/1 should work in most, but not all cases; some older mainframe
Another thing I would say is to start low and work your way up. That is, dial in at 300/1200 bps. Some strange embedded systems use lower rates. Also, play with your parity/stop bit setting. 8N1 is command, but 7E1 is totally on common. Another type, on connecting you might want to send a couple of characters instead of simply waiting for the remote system to respond. As was pointed out, older mainframes use such settions and X.25 PAD sometimes do as well. -- Champ Clark III | Vistech Communications,Inc. | 850-942-0388 x 101 http://www.vistech.net GPG Key ID: 58A2A58F Key fingerprint = 7734 2A1C 007D 581E BDF7 6AD5 0F1F 655F 58A2 A58F If it wasn't for C, we'd be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.
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- Re: Wardialing - Odd Results John R. Dennison (Jul 26)
- Re: Wardialing - Odd Results Champ Clark [Vistech] (Jul 29)
- Re: Wardialing - Odd Results Ron (Jul 29)
- Re: Wardialing - Odd Results John R. Dennison (Jul 26)
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