01-07-2003
That sounds like flow control. Characters are arriving too fast for the driver to read them. Are you using a real terminal? If you're using a network connection, are you using rlogin? If so switch to telnet and repeat your test. Bear in mind that even if flow control is working properly, it is not directly connected to you. All it can do is beep and hope that you stop typing.
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softflowctl
SOFTFLOWCTL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual SOFTFLOWCTL(8)
NAME
softflowctl -- Remote control program for softflowd
SYNOPSIS
softflowctl [-h] [-c ctl_sock] command
DESCRIPTION
softflowctl is a remote control program used to control a running softflowd(8) daemon.
The command line options are as follows:
-c ctlsock
Specify an alternate location for the remote control socket. Default is /var/run/softflowd.ctl
-h Display command line usage information.
COMMANDS
shutdown
Ask softflowd(8) to gracefully exit. This is equivalent to sending it a SIGTERM or SIGINT.
exit Ask softflowd(8) to immediately exit. No flow expiry processing or data export is performed.
expire-all
Immediately expire all tracked flows.
delete-all
Immediately delete all tracked flows. No flow expiry processing or data export is performed.
statistics
Return statistics collected by softflowd(8) on expired flows.
debug+ Increase the debugging level of softflowd(8)
debug- Decrease the debugging level.
stop-gather
Stops network data collection by softflowd(8).
start-gather
Resumes network data collection.
dump-flows
Return information on all tracked flows.
timeouts
Print information on flow timeout parameters.
send-template
Resend a NetFlow v.9 template record before the next flow export. Has no effect for other flow export versions.
BUGS
All times are unconditionally displayed in UTC, regardless of the system timezone.
AUTHORS
Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
SEE ALSO
softflowd(8)
BSD
October 18, 2002 BSD