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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: *BSD and 115kbps Serial
Date: 4 Jan 1995 21:08:49 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3eegop$3r9@homer.alpha.net>,  <Dick@Seaman.Chenequa.WI.US> wrote:
>So, the question is whether the machine running FreeBSD, assuming it has 
>a serial port with a 16550 UART, can really handle a full 115kbps serial link.

Yes.  I have first hand experience with this, and it works very well.
ftp transfers perform at very close to the theoretical max, and NFS/X
performance is actually usable.

						Jordan