From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 26 9:25:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uq.net.au (fox.uq.net.au [203.101.255.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC40415566 for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 09:25:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mynet@uq.net.au) Received: from uq.net.au (dyn-9-240.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.9.240]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA15548; Thu, 27 May 1999 02:24:54 +1000 (GMT+1000) Message-ID: <374C206E.92794708@uq.net.au> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 02:25:18 +1000 From: Andrew X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Travis Stevenson Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Recommended Multiport Card References: <000301bea792$5660f090$0b9f5a89@dublin.lcsd2.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have used stallion cards before and found them to be very good http://www.stallion.com However I wouldn't recommend using a multiport serial card these days. Instead you are MUCH better off with a digital terminal server . That way clients can dial in at 56K ( or close to it ). Not only is the speed better but also clients get better ping times and less dropouts due to you having a digital connection to the exchange . Also it is MUCH less headache for the administrator as you don't have lots of modems and analogue lines to deal with. Livingston ( now owned by Lucent ) have some great terminal servers for a reasonable cost. There are many other brands that are good such as Ascend , Bay networks , ACC , Cisco , USRobotics/3Comm and others. The cost may be more at first but in the long term it is a much better solution. Andrew Travis Stevenson wrote: > What multiport cards do any of you guy's recommend for Dialin access > on FreeBSD 3.2. > > Travis Stevenson > Network Engineer > Lincoln County School District #2 > tstevenson@lcsd2.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message