From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 07:29:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11095 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.castlenet.com (ns1.castlenet.com [209.63.23.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10979; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) Received: from ip65.castlenet.com (ip65.castlenet.com [209.63.23.65]) by ns1.castlenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA25860; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 08:35:29 GMT From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly) Cc: Doug White , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD as router, terminal server Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 15:33:51 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@castlenet.com Message-ID: <34e9ace2.28109794@castlenet.com> References: <34e98ccb.899122@mail.cetlink.net> In-Reply-To: <34e98ccb.899122@mail.cetlink.net> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 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 HAA11001 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:16:43 GMT, you wrote: >On Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:13:55 -0800 (PST), Doug White > wrote: > >>On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Gary Dunn wrote: >> >>> I am developing alternatives for an ISP start-up. A typical ISP involves >>> a unix server, a router, and a terminal server. It seems to me that a >>> reasonably fast Pentium should be able to perform the routing and >>> terminal service, at least in the early stages of growth. >>> >>> Am I over-estimating performance? >> >>You'll outgrow that pretty quickly, servicing serial ports can eat CPU >>significantly. > >Anybody have experience with Comrtol Rocketport multiport serial >adapters and how many ports they can run on one box? I have two 32 port ISA boards in my FreeBSD box... Right now only the first 32 ports work... When I called Comtrol, they got someone right on it... They tweaked the driver, and now there is a new Beta version up on their ftp sight that should allow up to 128 ports in one box... Haven't had the time to check it out yet though. -- Later Science (efinley@castlenet.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message