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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13667 comp.protocols.ppp:6140 comp.os.linux.help:58532 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!uunet!heifetz.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) 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? Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.protocols.ppp,comp.os.linux.help Date: 7 Oct 1994 09:38:29 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 44 Message-ID: <3734ul$iaq@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <1994Oct6.153307.1@wittenberg.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quatar.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mike Andrews, Comp Ctr (mandrews@wittenberg.edu) wrote: : 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.) YES! FreeBSD1.1.5: 486-66DX/2 16MB 16550A(FIFO) <-115200 ppp-> 386DX/40 4MB 16550 ftp: 12kB/s the same with slip ftp: 9.5kB/s : My smaller questions: : 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. FreeBSD-Base-System includes various thing, like uucp, nfs, dictionary, ... free that after installing! and delete some things. with 4MB you should not start X, thats why you must not install the X-distribution! reserve some space for swapping (app. 8MB) and after install + clean some things there must be some space left free (app 10-20MB, perhaps 35MB) Read the docs of FreeBSD, there are also some words about space-requirements :) Lars. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Lars Hentschke voice:033052+50726 line:033052+51576 14400/V32bis (public) | | email:nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de OR nuggets@tworivers.bln.sub.org (home) | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------