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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Re: BOCA 6 port serial. Opinions?
References: <2sne2iINNlbl@scarecrow.mke.ab.com>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 23:57:34 GMT
Message-ID: <Cqy7wC.HMz@obiwan.uucp>
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In article <2sne2iINNlbl@scarecrow.mke.ab.com>,
Thad Phetteplace x4461 <tdphette@mke.ab.com> wrote:
>I am thinking about running a BBS on a FreeBSD system using the BOCA
>6 port serial card. Will a 50Mhz 486DX2 with 24MB RAM have the
>horsepower to support 6 simultaneos users doing file transfers and
>the like? The system will also be an Internet email relay and provide
>a few other related services.
I don't really know anything about the Boca 6-port card (I am using
their 16-port card, the BB2016, it has the equivalent of 16 16550A's)
but perhaps my experiences will be useful to you anyway.
I have 6 modems and 5 local terminals connected to my 16-port card
at this time. I do alot of uucp transfers (receive and send news
feeds) and support random remote users dialing up. Performance is
quite good. Uucp CPU usage (per line) appears to be well under
1%. I often have 3 uucp lines running concurrnetly with no noticable
performance penalty. Also, I have a small ethernet LAN here at
home (consisting of 6 systems) with this system also running slip
to a server at work. I am currently running FreeBSD 1.0.2 on this
system (with plans to upgrade to 1.1.5 soon).
Some other relavent info on my system's configuration is:
486DX2/66 EISA MB, 256kb cache, 32MB RAM,
9 disks (8 are FAST), CDROM, & two tape drives (8mm & QIC525)
spread across 3 BusLogic BT-747S EISA SCSI controllers
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