From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 14 10:27:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from inago.swcp.com (inago.swcp.com [198.59.115.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C0437B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:27:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (deichert@localhost) by inago.swcp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA04580; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:27:24 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: inago.swcp.com: deichert owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:27:24 -0700 (MST) From: Diana Eichert X-Sender: deichert@inago.swcp.com To: TCWORKS Staff Cc: Rob Secombe , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial port server In-Reply-To: <3A11758D.FB12906E@tcworks.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you can find one on the used market iLivingston PM25's are usually real inexpensive, 24 ports plus a console port using 3 8-port octopus cables. Last time I bought some they wer ~US$700, cheaper than building a PC with multi-io cards. On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, TCWORKS Staff wrote: > Rob Secombe wrote: > > > > > > I am presently trawling through the ports collection looking for a serial > > port server. I want to be able to telnet to a machine and end up connected > > to another device plugged into a comm port on said machine. It looks > > .../ports/comms/conserver may do it but is anyone aware of anything else? > > Why don't you use a Livingston Portmaster 2? They work very well in > this fashion, are more scalable and probably easier to setup. > > The PM2 has 10 ports, the PM2e has up to 35, here is a link: > > http://www.portmasters.com/livingston-specials.html > > > -- > Chris > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message