Drivers for FORE systems cards under FreeBSD

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at ref.tfs.com
Fri May 26 09:10:53 PDT 1995


> > No promises over here but I am going to try to remedy the ATM situation.
> > Nor I am going to state who am I going to be dealing with .
> 
> Much as I hate generalisations .. I would warn that ATM and IP apparently do
> not mix well in cases where good interactive response is critical, at least
> in my limited experience. I get better response over my own overworked 14k4
> modem connection to the net than over a (university based) 2 megabit ATM
> link.

This is not a general problem with ATM, and I tend to say that it's
because there are other users on the 2Mb ATM than you.

It's certainly not an argument against ATM...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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