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Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?
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othermark wrote:

> Karl Denninger wrote:
>  
>> What options do I have in the FreeBSD universe here guys?  This is a
>> real no-BS production application that has hundreds of deployed
>> instances, and it is in no way "obsolete" or something I intend to stop
>> supporting.
> 
> The following has worked fine for me for 3+ years.  I usually just go to
> ebay and search on  "moxa 8 port" and buy some more when I need them. 

I realize that you may not want ebay'd cards for your production systems. 
It looks like they still sell pretty much the same card, but with 'das
blinkin lights' and are now 3.3v compatible so you can use them in pci-x
slots:

http://www.moxa.com/product/CP_168U_V2.htm

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