Re: FW: flexfax: "Waiting for modem to come ready!" with more than two modems!!

[Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 12:01:16PM -0500, Mike Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Ken Cornetet wrote:
> 
> > You may want to investigate an intelligent serial IO board such as a
> > RocketPort. You can get several (8 or 16) ports on one IRQ.
> > 
> > One bit of warning: I've never tried *any* intelligent serial board on a
> > linux system, but I have tried them on an older Intel based unix system. The
> > intelligent IO boards just never seemed to have the bugs worked out.
> 
> The Cyclades 8 port board works well.  We use it with Hylafax.
> 
> Mike

I used a Digiboard PC/8e with FreeBSD and Hylafax.  No problems with all 8
modems blasting away.  This was and is a VERY high volume server and also
is the TPC.INT gateway for the Chicagoland area.

"It just works".  A far, far cry from what I was used to dealing with in the
serial board realm with *commercial* software. :-)

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