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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD - routing and slip Date: 12 Jan 1994 20:44:00 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2h1neg$gju@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2gv4lc$l0i@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1994Jan12.142552.6187@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <CJJ0w6.ADo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <CJJ0w6.ADo@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, Jim Pitts <pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu> wrote: >In article <1994Jan12.142552.6187@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, >Peter Howlett <b6ps@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> wrote: >> I use a GVC 14.4k fax modem at home on NetBSD 0.9 with serial 57.6K >>to my school on 16450 serial ports and have'nt had a single silo >>overflow since. On a good day (if the SUN at school is not loaded) >>I can get up to 3000 Chars/Sec on kermit transferring binary (gzip'd) files. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ I have an EXTREMELY hard time believing that since I'm downloading binary files with Kermit with my brand new 14.4 and it's maxing out at around 1700 Chars/sec with zmodem. Granted I'm not running 57.6 (38.4) but the speed difference + modmem compression should not give you a 2 x increase in speed. >>My machine by the way is a 386DX/25 w 8M Ram and X running constantly. > >I find this -very- hard to believe. I have basically the same set up except >that I run FreeBSD, the sio device drivers, have a faster CPU and use zmodem >rather than kermit (I also use ftp with ppp). I am luck to get 1.2 K/s transfer >rate with a 16550A. Either I am doing something drastically wrong or you are >doing something drastically correct. I also have a difficult time believing it as well. >I realize that the sio drivers are a slow down, and the 'new' kermit is much >more efficent than it used to be ... but a factor of 2 or more? I don't understand the 'sio drivers are a slow down' part of that. The sio drivers are much more efficient than the NetBSD drivers publically available. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me