From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Jan 4 13:28:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA26929 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 13:28:31 -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 NAA26914 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 13:28:25 -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 QAA14228; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:26:20 -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 22:27:10 GMT Message-ID: <34b30bdb.16044965@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 NAA26919 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:23:20 -0700 (MST), Atipa wrote: >> 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. >What getty are you using? None whatsoever. This is a PPPD-only terminal server. My ttys entries look like this: ttyd3 "/usr/sbin/pppd +pap -detach 57600" unknown on secure John