[OZAPRS] APRS Advice

[Ray Wells]

My system usually only reboots when I do something to it or the energy 
authority wants their employees to have lunch in the bush! Current 
uptime is 22 days.

Only 50 pins? I have a full length 8 port ISA card (who remember when 
RAM came on one of those) with a DB 76 (or 78, who's counting) I'd kill 
for the octopus cable to db25. Actually, it came with a breakout box of 
8 DB25 sockets.

Ray vk2tv

Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>
> On 05/04/2009, at 6:50 PM, Ray Wells wrote:
>>
>> P3? I run a P3 for the bbs and aprs node, with 6 radio ports plus 
>> internet links. But that is under Linux :-)
>
> yeah, I was going to say. - P3 sounds like a bit of overkill for an 
> Igate ;)  The old Vk1 Igate (i.e. back when I lived in Vk1 ;) ) was a 
> K6-2-300 with 128mb ram.. And that was running a TCP/Modem BBS at the 
> same time..  Looking at the VMware management console for second.aprs, 
> it's currently pulling averaging 10mhz of the host CPU, so you'd 
> expect an igate (which would be doing 1/100th the traffic at most?) to 
> use even less ;)
>
> But as you say, that's under linux...  Once you add the gooey overhead 
> of windows, you'd want a P3 I guess..  Can't say I'd ever run anything 
> serious on windows.. It seems to want a reboot every time you pass 
> wind :)
>
> --DG
> (Who's giggling like a schoolgirl after digging in the shed for an 
> esata cable this afternoon, and found his old stallion 'EasyIO' 8-port 
> ISA-slot serial card, complete with it's huge 50+-pin D-connector and 
> pigtails to DB25's :) )
>
> Damien Gardner Jnr
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