From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 17:06:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id RAA13291 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:06:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id RAA13282 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:06:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA08961; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:06:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:06:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Leonard cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: silo overflow? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Keith Leonard wrote: > I was just reading my mail (which is on my ISPs mail machine) using telnet > and pine. and I get a kernel message that goes something like this (don't > quote me): > > kernel message: sio0 - silo overflow .... > > I'm using a 14400 intel external modem hooked to the serial port on my IBM > PS/Note (yes it's old) using a 16450 UART. The setting in the script to > start pppd and chat is set to 19200 so as not to overrun the older chip. > Is this the problem, should I set it to a lower speed. Or am I barking up > the wrong tree? > PS. I don't have this happen on my larger machine using a 16550 Well, that is your problem. FreeBSD doesn't service the sio port fast enough for 16450 hardware, so you'll get dropped characters. With PPP it isn't such a bad problem since it'll just resend bad packets. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major