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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Unix for SLIP/PPP Server- Best Reliability/Cost?
Date: 15 Nov 1996 19:30:48 -0000
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In article <56dl8p$rje@panix2.panix.com>,
tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
: Maybe. If you can do it all in one piece, why spend the dough on the terminal
: servers? The real question is how many serial ports he can put in a PC before
: the thing has such a tremendous interrupt load that it can't get anything else
: done.
I suspect this is why briang suggested the terminal server idea (despite
the original poster saying he didn't want to use one) in the first place.
Even if you have one IRQ for 16 ports, you're only really looking at 80
direct serial connections per pc.
It would be better to have something like a terminal server translating your
traffic to something more "expandable" like network traffic.
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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