From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 22:16:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15759 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:16:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA15733; Mon, 3 Jun 1996 22:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA05227; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:08:58 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606040538.PAA05227@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Alarm Monitoring - Multi I/O (Advice) To: ELLISOND%SC2.EDW@mhs.elan.af.mil Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 15:08:57 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "ELLISOND%SC2.EDW@mhs.elan.af.mil" at May 29, 96 04:10:00 pm 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 (Sorry to take so long to get back on this...) ELLISOND%SC2.EDW@mhs.elan.af.mil stands accused of saying: > > I would like to configure a FreeBSD 2.1 box to monitor Contact Closure > Alarms generated from a Motorola Smartnet II Trunked System Controller, > Multiple channel banks and a DS3-Microwave System. Is there a card or > method supported by FreeBSD 2.1 that can handle this type of operation? You can do this with an off-the-shelf digital I/O card, and talk to it with user-mode port I/O. > I also plan on using the same box to attach multiple RS232 communications > devices (3 remote site controller, 3 Best UPS, and 2 Motorola Unix Boxes). > I am considering a Cyclades 16 port board (previous experience with board) > for this job, but if there is a card with the RJ45 connectors on the card > instead of an external box I would rather use that. If none of these are talking particularly hard, you could go with one of the PC-COM 8-port RJ cards. These work quite well. > Duane R. Ellison, SrA Again, sorry to be so slow in responding to this 8( -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[