Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 14:43:09 +0300 From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), davidg@root.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router Message-ID: <199506271143.AA24013@laphroaig.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <199506261519.KAA29341@brasil.moneng.mei.com> References: <199506250512.IAA07090@shadows.cs.hut.fi> <199506261519.KAA29341@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Joe Greco writes:
> Say WHAT?
>
> I used to have a 386SX/16 here in the office with a SMC Ethernet card and
> ^^
> a bunch of 16550's, that I used as a terminal server (recently upgraded to a
> 386DX/16). It handles 4 modems, a high speed (38400) network connection
> to another box, and from time to time when I am loading FreeBSD, I connect
> another 386sx/16 with 16450's, and set up a hardwire SLIP link between the
> two at 115200.
Have you tried current kernels? We haven't had any problems with systems
running 1.1.5.1 (including one 386/40 with 5 active ethernets and 4 active
serial ports?)
> So I know of at least one 386sx/16 that can soak up 38.4k with 16*4*50's,
> and my router was certainly capable of blasting lots of data all over the
> place at speeds rather higher than that....
I have two systems
386/16 ----- 38400bps leased ------------ 486/40
SMC 8013 5 ethernets (NE2000 and SMC) 6
16550 serial ports (4 and 4 used, respectively)
separate 2-port 16550 card all ports true 16550 chips
(not true NS) probably late revision (new)
Both a dedicated routers, with extra hardware to minimum (multi-io, ide
boot disk, not much used, vga, ethernet cards and serial ports). Both
machines loose interrupts in large quantity. 386/16 is running 2.0.5,
486/40 has got a bit older -current kernel (a couple of weeks, I guess).
486/40 has got a couple of native 115.2k leased connections, which may be
the source of the problem there, but it doesn't seem to be related to
activity on those links.
The only software running on these systems are pppd's and gated.
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