[SunRescue] Help with IPC serial ports...

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, James Lockwood wrote:

> I've got three words for you, and they're probably not what you want to
> here:
> 
> "Run SunOS/Solaris".

That doesn't strike fear into my heart... I used to run 2.6 on my IPX...
and it's what I deal with all the time at work...

> The zs serial port driver in SunOS 4/5 can sustain 38400bps on an IPC
> class machine with no problem, and 76800bps is doable on an IPX or faster.
> *BSD and Linux can't do this on the same hardware.  For most things they
> are more lightweight and perform better on low-end hardware, but they are
> lacking in zs serial port performance.

> I used a SS1+ as my dialup PPP gateway at 38400bps for over 2 years.  No
> overruns or other problems.  Ran both SunOS 4.1.3u1 and Solaris 2.4, along
> with ipfilter, the Harvest Cache and a boatload of other daemons.  For a
> NAT router, you can fit the OS and everything else on a 100MB disk with a
> bit of work, and 24MB RAM is sufficient.  16MB would work if you went with
> SunOS 4, but given the lack of support and number of patches I wouldn't
> recommend it.

I can get my hands on 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5.1 and up...  How do I get the
same masquerading functionality (I've only used masq'ing/NAT under linux)
under SunOS/Solaris?  I'd prefer masq'ing and not a proxy setup if I can.

> -James


Thank you very much,
  --Kurt