PCI-X Multiport Serial cards.

[Olaf Hoyer]

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, C. Stephen Gunn wrote:

> Jamie Bowden (ragnar at sysabend.org) likely uttered:
>
> > Does anyone have any experience with PCI-X multiport serial cards under
> > FreeBSD (4 or 5, either is fine)?  I've got a 1u Dell machine that in 3
> > weeks will lose it's current role in life, and I'd like to use it as a
> > console server for a bunch of headless SGI and Sun boxes.  Its only
> > expansion slot is PCI-X.  If anyone can recommend a known working card
> > with at least 8 ports, I'd appreciate it.
>
> You might also look into the 1-U rackmount products from Lantronix
> or Cyclades.  A private Ethernet segment is nearly as good as
> a custom interconnect to the server.
>

Hi!

have a couple of Cyclades 1U TS1000 (16ports) and TS3000 (48port)
sitting here as embedded solution running linux-ppc, and I am quite
happy with them, even snmp on them for monitoring purposes (I am having
nagios to monitor port status, link speed etc) runs out-of-the-box.

Just my 0.02 EUR ;-)

Olaf


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