Suggestions for decent multiport serial cards

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Oct 21 06:37:06 PDT 2004


In message <4177BA8D.7030803 at sitetronics.com>, "Devon H. O'Dell" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> One thing you may want to consider is this interesting gadget:
>> 
>> 	http://www.bwct.de/multi_serial.html
>> 
>> it's a six port serial USB adapter and the man behind the company
>> is tisco at freebsd.org
>> 
>> To make it 100% ideal for me, it would have a reed-relay output
>> next to each serial port, so that I can use it as a remote reset
>> as well.
>
>Thanks, PHK.
>
>This indeed looks very interesting, and might be ideal as I do live in 
>Holland, so it won't be a big hassle to ship things. Interestingly, I 
>took a look at their site, and they appear to have a ready-made 1U, 
>18-port console + relay solution for only 567EUR, which might be ideal 
>for me.
>
>I'm definitely going to ask for more information on this.

That looks very interesting indeed, although I think I would still
prefer to have the usb's in three decentralized units.

Bernd:  Can we have some more info please ?

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