Subject: Re: Can't pap authenticate with 1.5?
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/29/2000 21:47:49
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:25:00AM -0700, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> 
> >Common wisdom at the time I was more actively readwriting comp.protocols.ppp
> >was that it can barely handle 9600. Interupt latency of Intel machines
> >is too big.
> 
> I've seen gateway 2000 handbooks with 16450s running Linux keep up
> with 38400 (cgd saw it at Copper Mountain) -- at least as long as the
> IDE disk wasn't active.

Ok. Maybe it works for memory-only machines at 38400... ;-) Thats still half
an order of magnitude less than 115200.

Regards,
	Ignatios