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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip
Date: 11 Jan 1994 21:11:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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>}2) How do I get it to route from the local network (ethernet) which
>}it can talk to fine, to the outside world via slip (which it already
>}does fine). All the local machines know that they should route through
>}it, I just can't figure out how to tell it to pass things on.
route add default default_address

>}3) Everyonce in a while, I get "/dev/com1: silo overflow" messages.
>}They do not appear (in small chunks) to affect anything.
>}But get yoo many of them at once, and ver soo all network
>}(or maybe just all slip-related) tasks fail with "no buffer space available"
Use a 16550 card or (even better) one of the hayes ESP boards.  We run
netbsd 0.9 with all std silo drivers at 57600 with 28.8 modems and get
peaks of >40K with text files.  26K is common with binary files and other
net traffic.  The ESP board has in/out 1024k buffers and emulates a 16550
(albeit with huge buffers).

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for barrnet.geog.ps (176890 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
176890 bytes received in 35.86 seconds (4.82 Kbytes/s)

150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for forum-1.6c.tar.Z (186443 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
186443 bytes received in 61.99 seconds (2.94 Kbytes/s)

No overflows.

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