From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 20 11:15:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16750 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:15:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.ts.kiev.ua (viking.ts.kiev.ua [193.124.229.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA16743 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 11:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aviion.ts.kiev.ua by smtp1.ts.kiev.ua with SMTP id VAA10795; (8.8.3/zah/2.1) Tue, 20 May 1997 21:01:11 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from nbki.ipri.kiev.ua by aviion.ts.kiev.ua with ESMTP id SAA24497; (8.6.11/zah/2.1) Tue, 20 May 1997 18:47:56 GMT Received: from cki.ipri.kiev.ua by nbki.ipri.kiev.ua with ESMTP id RAA05610; (8.6.9/zah/1.1) Tue, 20 May 1997 17:19:39 +0100 Received: from 194.44.146.14 (mac.ipri.kiev.ua [194.44.146.14]) by cki.ipri.kiev.ua (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01922; Tue, 20 May 1997 17:37:15 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <3381A949.3000@cki.ipri.kiev.ua> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 16:38:06 +0300 From: Ruslan Shevchenko Reply-To: rssh@cki.ipri.kiev.ua Organization: IPRI X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams CC: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small office needs more serial lines References: <199705160526.XAA04795@rocky.mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > > I'm the jack-of-all-trades for the SRI-Montana office, and we just hired > another person so we're now out of serial lines on our modem bank (we > have 4 in use now). So, that means I got to get one of the multi-serial > solutions everyone has talked about in the past. > > What cards are supported under FreeBSD 2.1.7? I don't want to upgrade > the box because it's been heavily tweaked for local configuration, and I > don't have the time nor the desire to beta-test 2.2 on a box that has > 6-9 month uptimes. > > Also, do I need lots of interrupts? I would have 4 free available (from > the existing 4 ports), but I'm unsure if you need an interrupt/port > (which seems bogus). Any ISPs willing to part with a 8-port board > cheaply? *grin* > MOXA. 8 ports, 2 interrapts. work well during 3 weeks. refer on web page under freebsd.org/commercical vendors / hardware > Nate