From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 5 09:32:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA14454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA14445 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from exit1.i485.net (i485-gw.cetlink.net [209.198.15.1]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA05679; Thu, 5 Mar 1998 12:32:14 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: John Saunders Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 17:34:12 GMT Message-ID: <3500e131.18301614@mail.cetlink.net> References: <34FE35AE.181C67A7@scitec.com.au> In-Reply-To: <34FE35AE.181C67A7@scitec.com.au> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.01/16.397 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id JAA14446 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 05 Mar 1998 16:18:38 +1100, John Saunders 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