From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 4 12:34:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA22495 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from ns2.cetlink.net (root@ns2.cetlink.net [209.54.54.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA22488 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 12:34:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jak@cetlink.net) Received: from hot1.auctionfever.com (ts1-cltnc-35.cetlink.net [209.54.58.35]) by ns2.cetlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA10998; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:33:57 -0500 (EST) From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) To: Atipa Cc: "Stephen D. Spencer" , Lukas Wunner , lem , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large ISP Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 21:34:46 GMT Message-ID: <34b1fe28.12562940@mail.cetlink.net> References: In-Reply-To: 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 MAA22489 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 11:45:02 -0700 (MST), Atipa wrote: >The things I would not recommend using a PC for are as a Router (and/or >CSU/DSU), or as a terminal server. Get a nice Cisco router and use >Livingston terminal servers. For large scales, PC serial-based boards >will give you headaches. I'm doing some simple testing to see if FreeBSD is feasible as a terminal server. My first test of 2.2.5-stable, using only two ports simultaneously, indicates there is considerable efficiency loss due to transmit underruns. Next I'm going back to 2.2.2-release which reputedly performed better, and I'll try the same test on a different box to rule out hardware contributing to the problem. John