Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:56:39 +0000 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Wm Brian McCane <root@mccons.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiport Serial Message-ID: <1069854998.681.1.camel@laptop.irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20031125120037.V26497-100000@fw.mccons.net> References: <20031125120037.V26497-100000@fw.mccons.net>
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On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 18:08, Wm Brian McCane wrote: > Greetings, > This might no longer be a good place to ask this since so few of > us actually use modems anymore, but... > > I am wondering which of the multiple serial port cards is best > supported/maintained in FreeBSD. I am also concerned with > expandability... > > A customer with a server running about 20 dumb terminals plus some PCs on > a network, wants to put a box in a satellite office to run 4 or 5 > terminals and a printer. They also would like a new report system and we > are looking at setting up a box with about 32 modems hanging off it's > backside for faxing and dumping directly to onsite modem/buffer/printer > units. > > So: > support for 8 upto 32 ports > well maintained driver > capable of sending 32 simultaneous 19200 or faster faxes > Not too worried about the price Not sure if this works under FreeBSD or not (the chipset does, it's the 8 port part that apparently hasn't been tested), but easysync.co.uk do a USB -> up to 8 serial port units which may be worth looking into
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