From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 17:49:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA05607 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [165.254.13.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05597 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-082.etinc.com (ppp-082.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA12915; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:47:37 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:47:37 -0500 Message-Id: <199601300147.UAA12915@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> A "real" isp might use a portmaster....but many non-isps would like to >> provide a small number of modem lines for corporate dial-in. Its a big >> selling point for the O/S. > >That resembles what I'm doing here at MEI with the engineering dial-in >pool... 4 AT&T Paradyne DataPort 14.4 modems on a hunt. The box? A >FreeBSD 2.0.5R 386DX/16. Extra benefit: the lines can be used for outdials >too!! A brand new 486SLC-33 MB is 42 bucks (last time I checked)....more than twice as fast as 386DX/16..... dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX