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From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: muliport boards - building a PPP dialup server
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Hello again,

# > 	and who can enlighten me about Stallion cards?
# > 
# > 	(I'm looking for PCI, 16 or 32 ports device, be it
# > 	Stallion, Cyclades, Digiboard or whoever).
# > 	At least 16 ports, PCI, and FreeBSD support _are_ the
# > 	requirements.
# 

Hi So:ren, you say:

# I'm currently using two of their old ONBoard cards. Both are
# 16 ports/ISA types. If their newer cards are of the same
# quality I can only recommend them. I run both cards at their
# full speed (38400) on all 16 ports, works very nice...

	We have several MOXA C104+ (4 ports) and C128+ (8 ports)
	boards now, theyr'e with 16550 chips and are Ok with
	all channels at 57600, up to 16 channels per 486 box;
	FreeBSD performs flawlessly, no overloads or overruns.
	(Thanks to Bruce Evans and sio.c hackers!)

	So I should certainly add:
	simultaneous speed of 115200 on _all_ ports is required
	too -- otherwise, will I gain something better from this
	"smart" boards than I'm getting now from good old FIFOs?

-- 

	With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.

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