From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 07:20:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA00800 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:20:20 -0800 Received: from relay4.UU.NET (relay4.UU.NET [192.48.96.14]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA00792 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 07:20:19 -0800 Received: from news.cs.utexas.edu by relay4.UU.NET with SMTP id QQyhpl21951; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 10:20:07 -0500 Received: from mail.cs.utexas.edu (root@mail.cs.utexas.edu [128.83.139.10]) by news.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA01192; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:20:02 -0600 Received: from uudell.us.dell.com (uudell.us.dell.com [143.166.224.6]) by mail.cs.utexas.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA15992; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:20:01 -0600 Received: from obiwan by uudell.us.dell.com (5.67/dns1.3) with UUCP id AA18817; Sat, 18 Mar 95 15:15:02 GMT Received: by obiwan.uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0rq07o-000302C; Sat, 18 Mar 95 09:09 CST Message-Id: From: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: Multiport serial cards To: mtaylor@gateway.cybernet.com (Mark J. Taylor) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 09:09:08 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Mark J. Taylor" at Mar 17, 95 11:38:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1193 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mark J. Taylor wrote: > > You might ask Bob Wilcox about the stuff that he uses. He has used the > Boca Boards in the past, but I'm not sure what he uses now. Yep, I'm still using a Boca 16 port (BB2016) and Boca 8 port (BB1008) card (in different machines). The 16 port card has the advantage of full modem controls whereas the 8 port does not. I am quite happy with both of these cards. The system with the 16 port card gets the heaviest use and is still running 1.1.5.1. I have six modems and 5 termnials attached to the card. Performance of sio with this setup has never been a problem. I often have 4 of the modem ports running simultaneously (mostly uucp, some slip) with virtually no detectable slowdown in the system and little or no measurable CPU usage. However, my slip line occasionally hang up all of the ports though (requires that I cycle power on the slip modem to get things running again). I have yet to track this one down. -- Bob Willcox ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!uudell!obiwan!bob Austin, TX or: @uudell.us.dell.com:obiwan!bob 512-258-4224 (home), 512-838-3914 (work) or: obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net