From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 17 14:37:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA22760 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 14:37:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA22734 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 14:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA13727; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 17:36:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Network Admin cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: News provider feeback (fwd) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:16:27 EDT." Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 17:36:47 -0400 Message-ID: <13723.840317807@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Network Admin wrote in message ID : > 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 -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info