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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:29370 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4041 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!ddsw1!not-for-mail From: darus@MCS.COM (Jim Wygralak) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Can your beer do this? Date: 10 Nov 1994 13:58:53 -0600 Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation Lines: 26 Message-ID: <39tu1t$72d@Mercury.mcs.com> References: <38mlrk$h93@nyx10.cs.du.edu> <hpa.41cf0000.I.use.Linux@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu> <39euai$81q@wizard.pn.com> <39n145$246@netnet2.netnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.mcs.com > >: : I have run a Linux system for over a year directly connected to the >: : Internet providing a whole slew of services. I can safely say that >: : while the pre-1.0 kernels were a bit iffy in their stability, current >: : kernels are rock-solid; with the possible exception that kernels past > >: Unfortunately this does not seem to be the case with SLIP/PPP connections. >: I've been running kernels starting with .99PL13, and have consistently >: seen both SLIP and PPP sessions HANG when I try to do multiple things >: over them. I have not experienced this at all. I've been running SLIP for nearly 6 months with more than one kernel version and more than one motherboard. I routinely run multiple sessions over the slip conection, such as telnet, ftp, mosaic, and irc, all at once, and I have never had a problem that I have attributed to the SLIP connection. I run at 14.4kBaud on a 16450 uart serial port. I've used kernel versions 1.0.8 and 1.1.45 on a 386sx-33 motherboard, and a 486dx2-50 motherboard. My X server does occasionally die with a signal 11, but thats another issue. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim Wygralak | WWW users can now hear my voice | PGP public key available darus@mcs.com | and see my face. | DoD #0651 | http://www.mcs.net/~darus/home.html | "Dont Tread On Me"