From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 06:19:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA26070 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 06:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA26053; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 06:19:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0vAFav-00093lC; Mon, 7 Oct 96 06:19 PDT Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA29621; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:17:18 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199610071317.NAA29621@veda.is> Subject: 460.8 kb/s serial ports? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:17:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What would be the best way to connect a bunch of 460.8 kb/s async serial ports to a FreeBSD based login server? An "Enhanced" serial port will provide the peripheral interface hardware, but this imposes a limit of 4 ports per machine (2 E2S1P cards, 4 interrupts). What I want is an intelligent controller that will do 32 ports per interrupt at this speed, like an enhanced version of the Specialix XIO. Or where else should I be looking? The idea is to offer ISDN and ordinary modem service on the same bunch of dialup lines. -- Adam David