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Re: Multiport help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Apr 26 15:11:56 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:12:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: RHS Linux User <zap@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
cc: moss@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us, ub@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us,
johns@hydra.port-aransas.k12.tx.us,
Linux Net Mailing List <linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960425110501.2019A-100000@kraken.port-aransas.k12.tx.us>
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, RHS Linux User wrote:
> We've got a DX4100, a cyclades serial port rig (only 16 ports), and
> kernel -1.2.8- (Slackware 3.0) running on it. Now I know thats an old
> kernel, but I dont think its part of the problem.
>
> about once every week, under very light load still. As the user load
> increased on the network, it began to hang a little more frequently. A
> recompile of the kernel, with only those drivers used on the system
> (buslogic busmastering Fast SCSI, ne2000, 16 channels slip/cslip/ppp),
> the system got very stable again.
>
A fast 486 should handle 16 ports no problem...but a P100 would be better :)
With stock 1.2.8 or 1.2.13 kernels, you're asking for trouble. There are
at least half a dozen serious crash type bugs. Run, don't walk, to
http://trishul.sci.gu.edu.au/~tony/linux/patches.html and get the bugfix
patches.
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