Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY?

[othermark]

Karl Denninger wrote:
 
> What options do I have in the FreeBSD universe here guys?  This is a
> real no-BS production application that has hundreds of deployed instances,
> and it is in no way "obsolete" or something I intend to stop supporting.

The following has worked fine for me for 3+ years.  I usually just go to
ebay and search on  "moxa 8 port" and buy some more when I need them.  They
are PCI based, here's the output from my console server.   

puc0 at pci0:2:0:  class=0x070002 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01801407 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Lava Computer Manufacturing Inc'
    device   = 'Lava Octopus PCI Ports 1-4'
    class    = simple comms
    subclass = UART
puc1 at pci0:2:1:  class=0x070002 card=0x00000000 chip=0x01811407 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Lava Computer Manufacturing Inc'
    device   = 'Lava Octopus PCI Ports 5-8'
    class    = simple comms
    subclass = UART
puc2 at pci0:4:0:  class=0x070080 card=0x00000000 chip=0x16801393 rev=0x02
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Moxa Technologies Co Ltd'
    device   = 'C168H/PCI Smartio'
    class    = simple comms
    subclass = UART

puc0: <Lava Computers Octo A> port
0xecf8-0xecff,0xece8-0xecef,0xecd8-0xecdf,0xecc8-0xeccf irq 20 at device
2.0 on pci0
puc0: [FAST]
uart0: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart0: [FAST]
uart1: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart1: [FAST]
uart2: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart2: [FAST]
uart3: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart0: [FAST]
uart1: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart1: [FAST]
uart2: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart2: [FAST]
uart3: <16550 or compatible> on puc0
uart3: [FAST]
puc1: <Lava Computers Octo B> port
0xecf0-0xecf7,0xece0-0xece7,0xecd0-0xecd7,0xecc0-0xecc7 irq 20 at device
2.1 on pci0
puc1: [FAST]
uart4: <16550 or compatible> on puc1
uart4: [FAST]
uart5: <16550 or compatible> on puc1
uart5: [FAST]
uart6: <16550 or compatible> on puc1
uart6: [FAST]
uart7: <16550 or compatible> on puc1
uart7: [FAST]
puc2: <Moxa Technologies, C168H/PCI> port
0xec00-0xec7f,0xe8c0-0xe8ff,0xecb0-0xecbf irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci0
puc2: [FAST]
uart8: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart8: [FAST]
uart9: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart9: [FAST]
uart10: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart10: [FAST]
uart11: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart11: [FAST]
uart12: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart12: [FAST]
uart13: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart13: [FAST]
uart14: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart14: [FAST]
uart15: <16550 or compatible> on puc2
uart15: [FAST]

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