Subject: Re: Serial changes 1.1-current
To: Phil Knaack <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/23/1996 18:41:53
>>>>> ""Phil" == "Phil Knaack" <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu> writes:

Phil> 	I find this interesting because I use a P90 with an internal
Phil> Zoom modem and a 4-byte fifo, I doubt it has the 'hardware flow
Phil> control'; I also have a heavily-used 3com509 in this
Phil> machine. And I get virtually _no_ errors on my PPP link
Phil> (running at 38.4) to a 486slc/66 with an identical modem.

	Internal modems very often have 'fake' fifos --- they have a
real fifo within the modem, but the computer will never see it.  A
good internal modem will never overflow the 'fifo' that it provides to
the computer.

Dave.

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