Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 17:34:12 GMT From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) Message-ID: <3500e131.18301614@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <34FE35AE.181C67A7@scitec.com.au> References: <XFMail.980304205551.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> <34FE35AE.181C67A7@scitec.com.au>
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On Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:18:38 +1100, John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au> wrote: >The CD1440 (I think that's the part number) chip in the smart cards >like Stallion and Cyclades do do automatic CTS/RTS handshaking >with the modem. They also have very large FIFOs. Which means you can >run 256 (yes two fifty six) ports at 57600 in a 486 DX4/100 ;-) I just bought some DX4/100s to use as terminal servers. :-) Can you saturate all 256 ports at once? And if you've never seen a load that high, what's the highest you have seen? And is that machine running FreeBSD or Linux? >For those that are interested, 4 Stallion 64 port ISA cards. -- Browser war over, Mozilla now free. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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