From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 08:59:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA16392 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:59:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA16385 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:59:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id KAA07089; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:57:02 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199601311657.KAA07089@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: lists@argus.flash.net (mailing list account) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:57:01 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601310055.SAA01710@argus.flash.net> from "mailing list account" at Jan 30, 96 06:55:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > not exactly, what is the overhead involved in polling activity on the boca > cards compared with a livingston... livingston wins on performance. I'm still waiting for somebody to cough up numbers to support this position. I can safely say that I have NOT seen performance problems with my FreeBSD terminal servers, and as far as I am concerned, that is what counts in the end. > there are other advantages to using a dedicated terminal server such as > Livingston offers, but i leave that as an excercise for the reader :^) And disadvantages, as well. See my past rants .. ;-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968