From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 12:39:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA23002 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 12:39:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22991 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 12:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.8.0/8.7.3) id FAA03455; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 05:09:24 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199610121939.FAA03455@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: Connecting to a Portmaster. In-Reply-To: <199610121901.PAA22225@ime.net> from Gary Chrysler at "Oct 12, 96 03:01:33 pm" To: tcg@ime.net (Gary Chrysler) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 05:09:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > They won't allow me to plug into the ether port do to the 56Kb line > and the fact that I could suck it all up. :( > The way I understood it was that they cannot restrict my bandwidth > via the ether port, but since the SIO port is running at 57600 that > it would prevent me from taking over the bandwidth of the 56. Grin... you'll do ok. Running PPP/SLIP with compression at 57600 and you'll get _very_ good connectivity (compared to the average joe) > Why do you say it would be a waste?? Waste of serial ports when ethernet is designed for the job, works out-of-the-box etc.. > It's got to be better then dialup. Hehe.. thats true. Since I've got my dialup setup I haven't had any problems. I stuck a couple of good (read $$$) v.34 modems at each end, and helped setup the dialup router (freebsd) at the providers end so its nice and stable :) Don't even notice it anymore, it all just works.... my standard phone line has been connected 5 days now, and the best we have had is 31 (not that it matters if it drops... it just dials up again) > Thanks for your input. No worries. If the portmaster does SLIP then it might pay to use that since SLIP doesn't negotiate. The benifits are that if either end disconnects (turns off or something) then you can just reattach it without thinking. I'm running similar here where I can reboot (or turn off) my machine and the modem will hold the line open until it comes up again (at which time it just slattaches and thats it) Regards, Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!