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From: rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: High-speed serial interfaces?
Message-ID: <6925@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 91 01:58:04 GMT
Organization: Kronos Inc., Waltham, Mass.
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I'm in the midst of planning a product which will include a SLIP (or PPP)
interface over a serial port.  We don't want to require CTS/RTS or XON/XOFF
flow control; it would be nice to just be able to handle thousand-byte
bursts of input, flow-controlled at the packet level via ACK/NAK rather
than at the character level.

In my experience, I've yet to run across a Unix system capable of doing
that.  And to make my job more difficult, we'd like to have a "portable"
way of doing this inexpensively on a variety of platforms.

Has anyone else had to deal with this, specifically under SCO Unix or on
any other system?  Am I naive to think that packet-level flow control can
ever work at 9.6K or 19.2K over on a 386 box running Unix?

-rich