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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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