From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 26 15:08:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA05236 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 15:08:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA05227 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 1996 15:08:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA04462; Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:49:41 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601262319.JAA04462@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:49:40 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601261554.KAA05222@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Jan 26, 96 10:54:35 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk dennis stands accused of saying: > > > >I've heard about bugs and problems with different driver.....but not much > >positive feedback. What is the "product of choice" for doing multi-port > >async dial-in with Freebsd....as of the moment? > Might I infer from the fact that no-one seems to have a (positive) opinion about > this that FreeBSD is a particularly bad choice for this and Linux should be > recommended? More that this is a really stupid list to be asking this question of. You should be asking in -questions or -isp. Personally, right now I'd be recommending the Stallion cards, as we have vendor support for them and they're available world-wide. How many ports do you want? > Dennis -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[