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Date:      Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:27:26 +1000
From:      Stanley Hopcroft <Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
To:        "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multi-serial card
Message-ID:  <20030718072720.A224@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>
In-Reply-To: <049701c34c8f$f68bd7a0$68c311cc@fortiva>; from ericx@vineyard.net on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:19:29PM -0400
References:  <049701c34c8f$f68bd7a0$68c311cc@fortiva>

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Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:19:29PM -0400, Eric W. Bates wrote:
> I want to setup a serial port console server much as described in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-server/article.html.
> I'm looking for recommendations for 16 port serial devices.
> 

that while I have no experience with the RocketPort euipment, I have had
good success with Cyclades cards (an 8 port PCI card in a Dell 350 -
with some minor case surgery).

The Cyclades cards are well supported (just works [TM]) by FreeBSD and
although I have no high speed applications (> 9k6) they happily drive
PADs, GSM modems (for SMS delivery from Nagios), consoles of network
devices and so on.

In addition, Cyclades support open source projects by providing
developer support to embed their applications into the Cyclades
platforms (TS series of terminal servers I believce). One such application is Ntop.

My colleagues use a standalone TS series device as a terminal server for
a fleet of headless Sun boxen (they wanted something fast and cheap so
the flexibility and power of a FreeBSD based terminal server wasn't
necessary).

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
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'...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...'

from Meditation 17, J Donne.



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