Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:24:19 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for decent multiport serial cards Message-ID: <26860.1098365059@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:17:11 %2B0200." <4177B6D7.2060704@sitetronics.com>
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In message <4177B6D7.2060704@sitetronics.com>, "Devon H. O'Dell" writes: >Hello list, > >I'm looking into making a console server for my machines at the >datacenter, and I'm wondering what decent (and hopefully inexpensive, of >course) multiport PCI serial controllers are available. One thing you may want to consider is this interesting gadget: http://www.bwct.de/multi_serial.html it's a six port serial USB adapter and the man behind the company is tisco@freebsd.org I havn't tried it myself, (indeed I may even have broken the driver for it :-), but it looks a lot more sensible to me than PCI serial ports since you can locate it closer to the machine and only have to run a USB cable over to it. To make it 100% ideal for me, it would have a reed-relay output next to each serial port, so that I can use it as a remote reset as well. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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