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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD as terminalserver Date: 25 Jan 1995 00:09:22 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3g44ri$art@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3f9khg$4s5@lxki.neutron.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au laux@neutron.com (Thorsten Laux) writes: >I am thinking about using NetBSD/FreeBSD as a terminalserver. Is BSD >serial io stable enough to handle one or two 4-port cards using 16550s >at 38400 bps? Is full hardware handshaking (rts/cts/cdc) availible >(the faq says this is not so)? How much cpu power would be necessary? >Could a 486/40 Mhz for example handle a AST 4-Port card at 38400 baud? For interactive traffic, it could handle 4 such cards at least. For SLIP traffic, I wouldn't go above 16 ports per machine. 8MB ram is all you need also. My opinion only, talking from personal experience :) Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |