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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:32:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: ed ellis <eellis@star21.com>
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Subject: Re: server capabilites
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On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, ed ellis wrote:

> Does this software have capabilites of multimodems? 
> I am an internet service provider and use Galacticomm for my software 
> which uses too much resources and slows the system down dramatically.  
> We have many problems with slow access speed due to the software.  WWW 
> browsing is not good because of this software, nor is ftp.  Very slow.
> 
> Does your system support multi modems and serial cards and does it give 
> adequate speed for browsing the net?  Can I set up multiple users on this 
> system? 

FreeBSD is a UNIX-style operating system, so multi-user is a basic part of
the system.

Web and such is pretty slow over dialup to begin with.

FreeBSD supports the following serial multiport boards:

     AST 4 port serial card using shared IRQ. 

     ARNET 8 port serial card using shared IRQ. 

     BOCA IOAT66 6 port serial card using shared IRQ. 

     BOCA 2016 16 port serial card using shared IRQ. 

     Cyclades Cyclom-y Serial Board. 

     STB 4 port card using shared IRQ. 

     SDL Communications Riscom/8 Serial Board. 

     Digiboard Sync/570i high-speed sync serial card. 

This is from the FreeBSD handbook, section 2.1.3, Supported Configurations
/ Misc. Devices.  The handbook is available from
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major