From owner-freebsd-security Sat Oct 2 20:22:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jason.argos.org (a1-3a123.neo.rr.com [24.93.180.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCB414E96 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:22:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@argos.org) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by jason.argos.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA31828; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:22:15 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Nowlin To: The Mad Scientist Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslog over serial In-Reply-To: <4.1.19991002145813.0094ca10@mail.thegrid.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Great, thanks. What about connecting a few machines to a central logging > server with this setup? Will I have to get a board for the logging server > with a number of parallel ports? Can I get whatever hardware that is used > to hook up multiple printers to a single machine? > Thanks for the help, > Dean If you want to use parallel ports, it would be a neat trick to find a board with 32 ports on it... :) If you want to use serial ports instead, (the easier way), pretty much any supported multi-serial card will work -- RocketPort and Cyclades are my preferred selections, but you can go with a cheaper model if you want. There probably won't be a whole LOT of data running through them, so speed probably isn't an issue. One of the main problems of running lots of "standard" serial or parallel ports on a machine is that you start running out of I/O ports or interrupts pretty quickly. --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message