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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Setting RTC/CTS Flow Control in NetBSD 0.9
Date: 06 Mar 1994 19:04:29 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca's message of 28 Feb 94 06:44:33 GMT


In article <a09878.762417873@giant> a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt
Sampson) writes:

   I'm trying to set up a SLIP link in NetBSD 0.9, but using tip even
   at 9600 BPS i'm getting problems with the silo overlowing.

The silo overflows have almost entirely to do with interrupt latency
(a problem stemming from some bizarre things Bill did in 386BSD), and
hardware flow control in general won't help.  Furthermore, the 0.9 com
driver does not do hardware flow control.

Your setup should work under NetBSD-current.  You can find a snapshot
at:

sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386

or on mirror sites.

--
- Charles Hannum
  NetBSD group
  Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532.
  In progress: pmax, sun3.