From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 21 13:24:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7714216A4CE for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D365943D1D for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:24:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9LDOJZP026861; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:24:19 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Devon H. O'Dell" From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:17:11 +0200." <4177B6D7.2060704@sitetronics.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:24:19 +0200 Message-ID: <26860.1098365059@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: phk@critter.freebsd.dk cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestions for decent multiport serial cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:24:21 -0000 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.