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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ping works, telnet won't Date: 11 Jul 1996 09:35:26 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4s2ece$ar@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4r2kho$f5p@agate.berkeley.edu> <4r3gkm$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4rrsl7$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4s2331$nmq@symiserver2.symantec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote: : Of course I know that FreeBSD is a completely different operating system, : but hey, if IBM's programmers took a dozen iterations to come up with some : working serial port drivers and they had the resources of the company to : draw on to purchase as many of the crummy, garbage serial-port cards as they : wanted, I think it is amazing that the driver works at all! I suspect that the guy that wrote the sio stuff - sorry, I forget his name :-( is someone that IBM would love to employ to re-write their drivers. The FreeBSD sio stuff is *stunning* IMO. I can use a 28k modem at a DTE of 115200 on a 486DX33 on a 8250/16450 UART, with next to no lost characters (I actually use a 16550 now) ! Of course (credit where it's due), this is also largely to do with *all* the other higher priority interrupt handlers not hogging the CPU too. Amazing what you can do with a good design :-) -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....