Subject: Re: new com driver, 1.2C?
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Brian B. Brown <brian@playfair.utoronto.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 03/07/1997 08:59:48
> yeah, i see these errors also.  what speed do you drive the serial
> port at?  i found that 38400 was now too fast, but 19200 was mostly
> OK.  charles hannum recently made a change to if_ppp.c (changing
> splhigh() to splimp()) but it appears that this is not needed for
> if_sl.c (as it has splimp() already).  this change dropped my
> fifo overruns from then 0-300 range to 0-20 range (per 10 minutes).
> this is still Really Bad, but, it's much better.

I was running at 38400, which gave me slight problems until 1.2ALPHA.
I had no problems at all under 1.2ALPHA, and now with 1.2C (still
at 38400), major problems.  I didn't hack any of the source, I probably
wouldn't trust myself with that task.

Brian

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