From owner-freebsd-questions  Mon Jul 29 13:07:05 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA19213
          for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:07:05 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@[199.165.180.33])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA19198
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 13:06:39 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA02784; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:06:03 -0400
Message-Id: <199607292006.QAA02784@spoon.beta.com>
To: James Risner <risner@heathers.stdio.com>
cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Wanted best serial board 8-16 port 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:32:22 EDT."
             <199607291932.PAA29130@heathers.stdio.com> 
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:06:03 -0400
From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

I have used the Boca ATIO66 (6 port) cards with incredible success. Based
on the cards I've seen, you can get 2 6 port cards per machine in shared
interrupt mode. 

I've also used the Digiboard 16/Xe's with considerable success using the
dgb driver in 2.1 with some work (ie - working out the debugging comments,
etc). I've considered seeing if the included interrupt code works at all,
but have put it off due to a lack of time.

For clarification sake, I've used the Boca's for PPP/SLIP, and async
connections. The Digiboards I've used only for async termina sessions, but
I suspect throughput for other applications should be reasonable.
	-Brian