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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PPP at 115200 bps (FreeBSD or Linux?) to a Xyplex MX1620?
Date: 9 Oct 1994 19:13:40 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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References: <1994Oct6.153307.1@wittenberg.edu> <MICHAELV.94Oct8173816@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <JKH.94Oct8172132@freefall.cdrom.com> <MICHAELV.94Oct8230628@mindbender.headcandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Oct8230628@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <JKH.94Oct8172132@freefall.cdrom.com> jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

[ Dropping characters on a 16550 ]

>I have a feeling that on *our* Zenith 386/25, which has to be the
>slowest 386 ever manufactured, that even FreeBSD would occasionally
>drop characters. ;-)  This is one sluggard machine...  I think the
>"25" in 386/25 means they use 25 wait states per memory access...

FreeBSD should be able to handle it on your 25.  As Bruce has tested,
the sio drivers on FreeBSD will do 115K on a 16450 (Yes, that's correct)
with about 90% CPU saturation on a lowly 386sx/16 (Again, that's what he
wrote)  With a 16550 it should handle it w/no problems.


Nate
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