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dial up ppp-out problem in rb?

Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:11 am
by ferry
Dear all,

i have pc with os mikrotik and connect it to modem 56k robotics with rs-232 and it works. but if the modem i try to connect with routerboard 500 cpu mipsle versi 2.9.51 or 3.13 it falied. any guess why?

thx,
Ferry

Re: dial up ppp-out problem in rb?

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:04 am
by nest
It might be because the Routerboard has no hardware handshake lines (RTS/CTS) ?? It depends on the exact model, but various boards do not have RTS/CTS lines only software handshaking. So maybe the RS232 buffer is overflowing and causing data corruptions?