From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Nov 14 00:27:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA23407 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (disn62.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.62]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA23394 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:26:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA00893; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:27:21 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611140827.JAA00893@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Terminal Server To: alex@yahoo.com Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:27:21 +0100 (MET) From: "Soren Schmidt" Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611140356.TAA06704@honker.yahoo.com> from "Alexander Winske" at Nov 13, 96 07:56:56 pm From: sos@freebsd.org Reply-to: sos@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Alexander Winske who wrote: > > Howdy, > I'm looking to set up a largish terminal server on > a FreeBSD box. (I want to log console output and allow > console sessions with approx. 75-100 hosts). > > Can anyone out there recommend a flavor of multiport > serial card that will allow me to have that many ports? > I would think that they wouldn't have to be doing more than > 2400 baud each, if that makes any difference... Look at some of the newer Stallion boards, I think they support upto 64 ports per card, so two of them should have you rolling. You'd need a decent CPU and plenty of RAM though. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..