Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 17:36:47 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Network Admin <naief@genghis_khan.dbeach.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: News provider feeback (fwd) Message-ID: <13723.840317807@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 17 Aug 1996 16:16:27 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960817161544.2231B-100000@genghis_khan.dbeach.com>
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Network Admin wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.3.91.960817161544.2231B-100000@genghis_khan.dbeach.com>: > The only hardware you have to worry about (plus what a news server > needs offcourse) is the serial port. We found that using built in ports > do not work, you keep losing data (tty-level buffer overflow messages > will fill your screen,logs). Its better to use an independent serial card > (vs built in the motherboard), or a Hayes ESP type card. Umm? If you have on-board (decent) 16550A UARTS, you should be able to handle that stream fine. It sounds like you have a clone motherboard which has poorer quality 16550 clones. I'm no expert on PC architecture, but I can't think of any reason that the on-board ports would suffer drawbacks that a paddleboard wouldn't. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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