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>, you may not need to do that at all, as long as you have a
>good sized Ethernet hub.  A company that I've used their products in
>the past, Equinox, has come out with a product that will allow you to
>control a serial device over an ethernet link.  This way, I believe,

Terminal servers have been existing for ages (I even have a couple
unused somewhere). One did provide SLIP, the other only telnet (you
attach a dumb ascii terminal to the serial port, you attach the
terminal server to Ethernet and can telnet to anywhere). But they tend
to be expensive solutions.

A Pentium 100MHz with little memory and 1GB disk, and a add-on 2
serial ports card, makes a cheap solution for a 4 modem dial-up.

Replicate for any number of modem you need. No investment as the P100
are available for free all around.

Olivier

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