[Cialug] Serial Cards

[Matt Patterson]

I may be interested in the card.   I have to wait for the powers that be 
to come back from holiday vacation before making a decision.  But the card 
should clean up a lot of the extra cabling that is currently clogging up 
the bottom of the rack.

-Matt


  On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> 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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