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

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

Why waste time and money on something you don't need....?

Remember that a dedicated machine does have it's own cpu too....

Tim

Ps - IMHO........


		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Norman Man [mailto:nhcman@spark.net.hk]
		Sent:	Friday, 21 May 1999 13:47
		To:	Matt Kaminer; Tim Ballingall
		Cc:	'flexfax@sgi.com'
		Subject:	RE: flexfax: Recommendations for a 4 port
Modem card for Linux

		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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