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

[Arjan Knepper <arjan@jak.nl>]

Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> 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. :-)
> 
> --
> --
> Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl
> I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give
> up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.

I just bought a Cyclades Cylcom YeP16, PCI sixteen port
intelligent board, work perfectly well with FreeBSD 3.0 and
Hylafax, and very easy to install and configure!

Arjan Knepper