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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multiserial cards & FreeBSD Date: 28 Dec 1995 11:21:44 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4btr3o$59p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <sslRx*M1R1@lhaven.UUmh.Ab.Ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit (Cc sent to Lawrence.) Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen <lawrence@combdyn.com> wrote: > I'm setting up a multiline system on FreeBSD. The original plan was > to buy a terminal server to handle the modems, but I'm not getting > as much money as I had planned on. So, incase I can't get a > terminal server to fit the budget... is anybody running a bunch of > multiserial cards (IE: 3 STB 4 COM boards with shared IRQ). How > well would this work? sax.sax.de runs fine with a Boca 2016 16-port card on a 486/40. It doesn't seem to be the easiest part to actually get one however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)