Suggestions for decent multiport serial cards

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4177B6D7.2060704 at sitetronics.com>, "Devon H. O'Dell" writes:
>Hello list,
>
>I'm looking into making a console server for my machines at the 
>datacenter, and I'm wondering what decent (and hopefully inexpensive, of 
>course) multiport PCI serial controllers are available.

One thing you may want to consider is this interesting gadget:

	http://www.bwct.de/multi_serial.html

it's a six port serial USB adapter and the man behind the company
is tisco at freebsd.org

I havn't tried it myself, (indeed I may even have broken the driver
for it :-), but it looks a lot more sensible to me than PCI serial
ports since you can locate it closer to the machine and only have
to run a USB cable over to it.

To make it 100% ideal for me, it would have a reed-relay output
next to each serial port, so that I can use it as a remote reset
as well.

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