RE: flexfax: Recommendations for a 4 port Modem card for Linux

[Tim Ballingall <tim@mazda.com.au>]

It is possible to get serial boards that use interupts & ports other than
those used by com 1 & 2.. I have a pc running redhat that has 5 com ports
from  2 extra serial cards and the upper interupts of the pc.

The card is a 6308HT manufactured by Sun. Cost was around $20 ( AU ) & seems
to work ok..

If you use it make sure you use setserial to set the tty's properties.

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Greg Breland [mailto:gbreland@healthtech.net]
		Sent:	Friday, 21 May 1999 0:11
		To:	'Hylafax'
		Subject:	flexfax: Recommendations for a 4 port Modem
card for Linux

		Does anyone have any recommendations for a modem card for
linux?  I need
		to connect 4 to 8 modems to my linux box.  I have plenty of
14.4
		external modems, but as I understand PC's, I can only have 2
serial
		ports.  Does anyone know of either a good 4 port serial
board or a 4
		port modem bank device that works well with linux and
Hylafax?

		We have about 2000 customers that we have to send regular
governmentally
		required updates to.  It takes 1 minute to send a one page
fax to a
		number.  That means 2000 minutes or 33.3 hours for one
broadcast with
		one modem.  Hooking up the second modem drops that to 17
hours, which
		will work, but I would rather get it around 8 hours or less.

		Thanks for your help, Hylafax is a great program.
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