Multiport Serial

[Simon Dick]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 18:08, Wm Brian McCane wrote:
> Greetings,
> 	This might no longer be a good place to ask this since so few of
> us actually use modems anymore, but...
> 
> I am wondering which of the multiple serial port cards is best
> supported/maintained in FreeBSD.  I am also concerned with
> expandability...
> 
> A customer with a server running about 20 dumb terminals plus some PCs on
> a network, wants to put a box in a satellite office to run 4 or 5
> terminals and a printer.  They also would like a new report system and we
> are looking at setting up a box with about 32 modems hanging off it's
> backside for faxing and dumping directly to onsite modem/buffer/printer
> units.
> 
> So:
> 	support for 8 upto 32 ports
> 	well maintained driver
> 	capable of sending 32 simultaneous 19200 or faster faxes
> 	Not too worried about the price

Not sure if this works under FreeBSD or not (the chipset does, it's the
8 port part that apparently hasn't been tested), but easysync.co.uk do a
USB -> up to 8 serial port units which may be worth looking into