From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 18 11:08:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04237 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 11:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genghis_khan.dbeach.com (genghis_khan.dbeach.com [207.18.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04232; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 11:08:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from naief@localhost) by genghis_khan.dbeach.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA05794; Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:05:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 14:05:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Network Admin To: Gary Palmer cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News provider feeback (fwd) In-Reply-To: <13723.840317807@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > > The only hardware you have to worry about (plus what a news server > > needs offcourse) is the serial port. We found that using built in ports > > do not work, you keep losing data (tty-level buffer overflow messages > > will fill your screen,logs). Its better to use an independent serial card > > (vs built in the motherboard), or a Hayes ESP type card. > > Umm? If you have on-board (decent) 16550A UARTS, you should be able to > handle that stream fine. It sounds like you have a clone motherboard > which has poorer quality 16550 clones. I'm no expert on PC > architecture, but I can't think of any reason that the on-board ports > would suffer drawbacks that a paddleboard wouldn't. > > Gary We have an ASUS P/I-P55TP4N motherboard.The manual says that the board has "Super Multi-I/O: with two high-speed UART compatible serial ports". Is this setup good or bad, I really do not know. We kept on having buffer overflows until we got ourselves another I/O card, and everything worked well thereafter. When I called Pagesat to ask about the system and wether it will work with FreeBSD and so on, They said no problem, the only thing you have to do is get an independent fast serial port and you are good to go, So apparentaly a lot of folks were having a problem. One thing I noticed from the Satallite reciver is that data does not flow continously but rather arrives in short bursts every 20 seconds or so. Maybe the independent card had a larger buffer size than the inboard one?.. or maybe its a genuine 16550N vs just compatible?.. Naief > -- > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info >