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From: mah@dec1.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Haberler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: High-speed SLIP/PPP
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.091922.26576@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
Date: 18 Apr 91 09:19:22 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.133255.2117@nstar.rn.com>, larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
|> brian@telebit.com (Brian Lloyd) writes:
|> 
|> >SCO's standard tty drivers for the internal 16450 ports (COM1 and
|> >COM2) are pretty poor performers.  If you plan to do SLIP I
|> >-*<STRONGLY>*- recommend an intelligent serial I/O card or plan to go
|> >REEAAALLL SSLLOOWW.
|> 
|> Hmm - At least with Interactive if one runs SLIP they need
|> to run it on the stock ASY port.  We've tried numerous
|> smartboards and had nothing but problems - and finally

Hmm - I have running SLIP over the FAS2.08 driver running fine. The only glitch
is with ICMP echo requests generated with ping - the sometimes have checksum errors.
TCP and UDP work fine.

- michael