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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!anshar.shadow.net!anshar.shadow.net!nobody From: dwhite@anshar.shadow.net (Don Whiteside) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Terminal server? Date: 24 Jan 1995 11:27:58 -0500 Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3g39qe$dif@anshar.shadow.net> References: <3g0rjf$9kp@anshar.shadow.net> <3g1qq1$ge7@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: anshar.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@violet.berkeley.edu) wrote: : In article <3g0rjf$9kp@anshar.shadow.net>, : Don Whiteside <dwhite@anshar.shadow.net> wrote: : +> So what I'd like to do is set up a FreeBSD machine with a 16 port board : +>to take incoming telnet sessions and direct them out the serial ports. : +>(The 16 port board is because Boca will sell me one on a sysop plan for : +>next to nothing. I only expect to use about 8 sessions at a time) This : +>lets me put my money into a piece of hardware rather than into dead-end : +>software. FreeBSD because it's what I'm familiar with, but I'd consider : +>NetBSD if I have to go that way. : This should be trivial to implement with either BSD. After talking it out with the other 386-based unix guy here (I think better out loud) I had come to the same conclusion. Make incoming logins have kermit as a shell was our idea. However, what about the throughput issue? Could I do this, say, on a 386-40 with 8M and a 16 port Boca board and get ~600cps on 8 simultaneous channels? And, could someone point me at some related information or messages so I'm not totally bumbling in the dark?