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Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server
To: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin)
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In reply to Andrew V. Stesin who wrote:
> 
> 	We have several MOXA C104+ (4 ports) and C128+ (8 ports)
> 	boards now, theyr'e with 16550 chips and are Ok with
> 	all channels at 57600, up to 16 channels per 486 box;
> 	FreeBSD performs flawlessly, no overloads or overruns.
> 	(Thanks to Bruce Evans and sio.c hackers!)
> 
> 	So I should certainly add:
> 	simultaneous speed of 115200 on _all_ ports is required
> 	too -- otherwise, will I gain something better from this
> 	"smart" boards than I'm getting now from good old FIFOs?

Well, the reason I don't run the ONBoards faster is that they are
quite old, and cannot be programmed higher (I guess that was pretty
cool with 38400 in 1988 :). I belive some of their newer products
can handle 115200 if not more...

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