From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 16 14:41:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27484 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27473 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA11761; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:40:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981116164041.21661@futuresouth.com> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:40:41 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Wes Peters Cc: Dj Browne , chad@DCFinc.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link DE620 References: <199811161830.NAA04812@mailhub.hcl.com> <199811162141.QAA24188@mailhub.hcl.com> <3650A79A.D41BB4A5@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <3650A79A.D41BB4A5@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:30:50PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:30:50PM -0700, Wes Peters woke me up to tell me: > > > > Just curious...any idea how the performance is using the parallel port? > > Terrible. I used to work for a vendor of a TCP/IP stack for Win3.1. > We bought a bunch of TI TravelMate 4000Es for our show booth, using > Xircom parallel-port ethernet adapters. The best throughput we ever > recorded was about 120K bytes/sec, less than half the nominal throughput > of an NE2000. I'm told this was a very good time for the parallel device, > too. Gag. > > Is a direct-cable serial PPP link an option? At 115,200 bps, it's just > about as fast as the parallel-port ethernet, if a little less convenient > to setup. I use a hardwired SLIP link on my laptop. (isn't SLIP better for hardwired, less protocol overhead?) I run it at 19200 tho, it gets occasional overflows. At 38.4 it was overflowing slightly too often for comfort, and 57.6 and 115.2 were just far too much. Pretty abysmal, but it's better than nothing. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message