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

[wsuetholz@centonline.com]

I noticed that my message kind of implied that you would need multiple
cards.  That was really 4, 6, or 8 modems per RocketModem card.

On 20-May-99 wsuetholz@centonline.com wrote:
> We use Comtrol's RocketModems here.  Currently using VSI-Fax, but I had
> them working with Hylafax as well.  You can get 4 or 8 or 6(?) Modem cards
> in either ISA or PCI versions.  The drivers are already in linux.
> 
> Bill Suetholz
> 
> On 20-May-99 Greg Breland wrote:
>> 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.
>