[2370] in linux-net channel archive
Re: Internet Provider?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nelson@crynwr.com)
Fri Apr 5 11:15:00 1996
Date: 5 Apr 1996 14:03:33 GMT
From: nelson@crynwr.com
To: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
Cc: dledford@dialnet.net (Doug Ledford), hays@satcom.whit.org,
HADES@lapro4.unisinos.tche.br, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604051033.LAA01663@snowcrash.cymru.net>
Alan Cox writes:
> > I personally recommend the Comtrol RocketPort serial cards. They use a
> > 1023 byte recieve FIFO and a 255 byte transmit FIFO (according to the
> > driver header files). I have gotten great performance out of them
> > myself, even under loads such as 48 simultaneous PPP connections running
> > on a Pentium 100. I have hacked a little code into the driver to give me
> > some timing stats on CPU time used per instance of the polling routine as
> > well as a high and low watermark for the polling routine over a ten
> > minute time frame. If anyone is interested in the stats, let me know.
>
> Until we know the comtrol drivers work 100% for all uses I'd be wary of
> recommending them. Hopefully the new driver will do the trick. Cyclades
> boards are rock solid and far better than 16550's because they help out
> a lot (things like flow control are software driven on a 16550 which is
> bad). The rocketports are very very fast and very efficient.
A friend is using my Rocketport for an ISP. Ted's first couple of
drivers had some crashing problem, but the latest driver seems to be
rock-solid.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson
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