From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Oct 1 11:29:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA29166 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jimi.danodom.com (jimi.danodom.com [205.153.247.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29161 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daniel@localhost) by jimi.danodom.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id SAA00197; Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:27:29 GMT Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 18:27:29 GMT Message-Id: <199710011827.SAA00197@jimi.danodom.com> From: Dan Odom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple serial ports In-Reply-To: <199709302127.LAA29237@pegasus.com> References: <199709302127.LAA29237@pegasus.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ugh. Nope. We're paying $1,200 for a good 16-port terminal server and we can add up to an additional 48 ports at $450 per 16 ports. A Computone PowerRack. It does all the good stuff (PPP/PAP/CHAP, SNMP, and so on) at a low cost. Richard Foulk writes: > } > } Thanks for your help guys, you've been great. I think, however, > } that I'll spend the extra $500 or so and just buy a terminal server. > } It's easier. :-) > > Yikes. I doubt you'll find a decent terminal server for that cheap. > Try four times that. > > > Richard -- Daniel Odom, software engineer http://www.danodom.com/ "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi