From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 13 06:11:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03439 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 06:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA03433 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 06:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00399; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:59:43 +0800 (WST) Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:59:43 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: Vincent Poy cc: Steve , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some advice needed. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Vincent Poy wrote: > > What is the maximum modems a multi-port serial card can handle and > how many can you put into a box? > I might be a tad late but... I've seen people put 256 lines in a single UNIX terminal server. They used 4 64-port Stallion cards (EC/64) .. it worked, kinda. It KILLED the ISA bus (the guy actually fixed it by some nice tweaking of the BIOS parameters and some source hacking) but from memory he only puts three EC/64 cards per machine now (giving you 192 ports per box). -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)