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Re: Multiport question



In message <Pine.SUN.3.91-heb-2.05.970824144927.2295A-100000@humus.cs.huji.ac.i
l> you write:
|Hi.
|
|My school is considering buying a multiport card, and I'd like
|any information about the various multiport solutions under Linux.
|This includes both advice on which one to get and where
|to get it.

Our point-of-presence in tel-aviv is basically a single Linux box
running 2.0.29 with an Equinox (http://www.equinox.com) card (and a
Sangoma (http://www.sangoma.com) card for the Frame-Relay).  We have
their SST (Super-Serial Technology (?)) card.  This card takes one
slot, and connects through a cable to an external box with 16 ISA
slots in which you can put any internal modem.  Four such boxes can be
daisy-chained to support 64 modems on one card.  (Now I see in their
site that there is a 128 modems version).  The maker provides
dynamically-loadable drivers for Linux.  We had a few problems which
we attribute to the modems (Apache modems, the other ones available
from their rep in Israel were expnsive USR, as far as I remember), not
the card.  I've seen a place which claimed they work with no problems
for months, but under NT.

Hope this helps,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
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ISRAEL        amos@gezernet.co.il |                     -- Anonymous