From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 21 19:58:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hydrogen.fircrest.net (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5707F1529D for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 19:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.fircrest.net (8.9.1/8.8.7) id TAA05826; Fri, 21 May 1999 19:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990521195819.13574@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:58:19 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Karl Denninger Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion... References: <19990521214359.B16648@Denninger.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <19990521214359.B16648@Denninger.Net>; from Karl Denninger on Fri, May 21, 1999 at 09:43:59PM -0500 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger scribbled this message on May 21: > One other suggestion, while I'm at it. > > The "dgb" driver has been marked "alpha quality" for a LONG time. > > I've had a fax server running on a PC/Xe 8 port card (64k shared RAM) > for well over a year on one of these cards - and have NEVER had a single > problem with it. That server gets a LOT of extremely heavy use, and > if there were driver problems I would have found them by now. > > I'd suggest that someone drop the "alpha" byline on that one - its > definitely stable :-) me too, I've been using it to connect my Ricochet modem to my server.. the 2port board I have doesn't have problems with the Ricochet's over clocking of the serial port by at LEAST 4% (2k+ at 19.2kbps) when I'm running the modem at 115.2kbps (actually ~120kbps+... dgb0: PC/Xe 64/8K (windowed) dgb0 at 0x320-0x323 maddr 0xd0000 msize 8192 on isa dgb0: 2 ports -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message