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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13779 comp.protocols.ppp:6225 comp.os.linux.help:59614 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.help Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!info!iialan From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: PPP at 115200 bps (FreeBSD or Linux?) to a Xyplex MX1620? Message-ID: <CxK2oG.AM5@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: news@info.swan.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <1994Oct6.153307.1@wittenberg.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 10:33:51 GMT Lines: 33 In article <1994Oct6.153307.1@wittenberg.edu> mandrews@wittenberg.edu (Mike Andrews, Comp Ctr) writes: >I have a spare 386/40 that I've been unable to sell, and am considering turning >it into a dedicated PPP router for my home network. > >My big question: >Will FreeBSD (or NetBSD) run PPP at 115200 bps? I'm under the impression >that Linux can't go over 38400, and I have a V.34 modem (USR Courier). >(There IS a 16550 UART in the machine.) Both will happily do it with a 16550A UART. >If so, am I going to be able to cram all the binaries and a decent size swap >onto an 80 meg drive? (swap's going to be the problem, since this is a >4 meg machine. I can upgrade if I have to, but as I was going to sell >this machine anyway, I'd rather not. :-) I know Linux will fit. You can fit a dedicated Linux router on a floppy disk with a bit of care and/or by using CRAMDISK to a boot a 3Mb ramdisk. I guess that goes for a *BSD one too. >Also, anyone had any luck running PPP on EITHER *BSD or Linux dialing into >a Xyplex terminal server? When I tried on Linux a month or so ago, it sort-of >worked for half an hour, then something happened and the terminal server >crashed HARD (forgot its parameters!). It's probably wrong to blame this on >my end of the link, but it's still unnerving. Well thats a Xyplex problem whatever it is 8). Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iialan@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`----------------------------'`----------------------------''