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

[Norman Man <nhcman@spark.net.hk>]

Dear all,

Please notice that those cheap card do not have their own bank or CPU/RAM
to serve the i/o port and frequent irq calling to cpu cause performance
degrade. Highly recommanded to use the intelligent muklti i/o card (buid-in
with CPU/RAM) so that the i/o could be self serve and release the main cpu
to process the image RIP to fax.

With best regards,

Norman Man
sysadmin
norman@cnmaabd.org.hk

At 09:52 PM 5/20/99 -0400, Matt Kaminer wrote:
>But if you want a modem bank... having a card for each serial port fills
>up quickly!  There are four port / 8 port 16 port cards  for a little bit
>more.
>
>for example, the byterunner http://www.byterunner.com gives you a 4 port
>ISA serial card for 55 bucks!
>
>I highly recommend this card.  (they have an 8 port as well)
>regards,
>matt
>
>On Fri, 21 May 1999, Tim Ballingall wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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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