Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 18:14:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC Message-ID: <199506060114.SAA24766@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <18223.802400076@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 5, 95 05:54:36 pm
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> > > You just broke my 5 station test bed :-(. I use ppp lines and > > GENERIC kernels in it as all machines go out of here with a serial > > port in them. [Running ppp at 115k baud is fine for what I need > > it for and saves me a pile of ethernet cards!]. > > A) It's hardly too much to suggest that you use a custom kernel for > testing.. :-) > Except that does little to try and make sure our ``GENERIC'' kernel has maximal test time on it from the official test technician :-). [By the way, do I report to Julian E. or Paul R. in that capacity now???] > B) You can still use the /usr/bin/ppp program to establish your ppp links, > and probably with less effort once you have an /etc/ppp/options file > all tricked out. So don't say that "we don't support PPP in > the GENERIC kernel", we do! Just in a different way.. Umm.. you've got me over a barrell there, okay I shall convert my stuff to work with the usr/bin/ppp stuff. > C) For hard-wired lines where ppp is overkill, there's still SLIP. But I test slip code 24x7 on my incoming line to the building, so I figured the test bed would be a good place to test ppp :-). [Trying to maximize test coverage and all, maybe I should make 2 statitions slip and 3 stations ppp since I don't update my main box very often :-)] This is all getting tore apart and moved some time this week, so I will reconfigure it then. For now I just have another site specific patch that puts my test bed one more step away from production code :-). Anybody known where I can get a 200MHz capabile 15pin VGA switch box, I am starting to need high end XFree86 setup capability for system shipments often enough now that I figured I would upgrade my equipment there so I don't have to keep stealing my work monitor to do the final check on things. [I know I could do it with a BNC switch box but do you have any idea how much a 5 connector 5:1 BNC video switch box costs!!!] -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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