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> I have just done the conversion. I had been LRP 1-disk router for 2 years.
> The transfer rate getting from the router was max 20KB on a cable network.
> Then I switched to NetBSD the transfer rate now is max 50KB on the same
> network. Although the hardware is slightly different I moved from 486-66
> with 20MRam to Pentium 100 with 24Mram.

i was using linux router (handmade) but linux has bad handling of
UART's. with 16450 you can't do 115200 reliably - lots of chars are
lost. in NetBSD works perfect on 486/25. even with 16550A netbsd gives
about 10% faster speed.