[Cialug] Serial Cards

Nathan C. Smith smith at ipmvs.com
Fri Dec 29 08:12:13 CST 2006


In fact, I have a 4 port rocketmodem card that is not in use.

If it suits your purpose perhaps we could come to an arrangement.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Weis [mailto:djweis at internetsolver.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 7:28 AM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Serial Cards
> 
> 
> 
> I have used PCI cards that have multiple modems on them before.
> 
> Matt Patterson wrote:
> > Sorry, left out some specs...the machine is an IBM x306 
> which comes with 
> > 1 serial port standard.   This server's main task in life 
> is to be a 
> > launching point to connect to just about any subnet on our 
> network.  So 
> > there are a lot of tools in place for network testing.  
> There are also 
> > some dial out tests which require modems.  So the serial 
> card will have 
> > a modem hanging off of each port.  The current box that the 
> 306 will 
> > replace is a 3U box which is 5-6 years old and needs to be 
> retired.  The 
> > 306 is a 1U box so moving the existing serial cards over 
> will not give 
> > us the capacity that we need.
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