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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: running high speed modems under *nix
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.204217.2726@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 20:42:17 GMT
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- Gregory O. Harp (harp@netcom.com) wrote:
-
- : almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger) writes:
- :
- : >The probably biggest problem with high baud rates (>38400) is, that there's
- : >no standard interface to select them.
- :
- : Remember we're not talking about a real-time OS here, either. Even
- : with the 16550's FIFO the response time might be slow enough that
- : you'd be dropping bytes all over the place.
- :
- : In other words, I'd be extremely surprised to see anything faster than
- : 38.4K actually work under Linux or any Unix running on an i[34]86. On
- : a loaded-down system, no way. Remember, the serial buffers are sort
- : of small, too. It might be nice to be able to re-size them, or simply
- : re-compile the kernel to default to larger ones. (Maybe you can do
- : this and I simply haven't looked...)
-
- I looked at this some months ago. You *can* go as high as 115K, but you
- have to do a little mucking around with the kernel (minor) and some muching
- around with tty*.h. The only problem is, there isn't enough bits in the
- word to set all the baud rates. You either have to be very selective
- about the baud rates you want to support, or you have to chop off some of
- the lower speeds.
-
- BTW, I tried 38400 between two systems running 0.97p2 a couple of weekends
- ago. It worked .. barely. I had to drop back to 19200 to get it to work
- reliably - of course, I was only running 16450's. You might be able to
- run 38400 between two systems running 16550's, but I'm not sure. It's
- more doubtful if you could run any faster.
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
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