[geeks] Multiport serial cards for Linux?

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 13:24:09 CDT 2005


Bill Bradford wrote:
> Any suggestions on multiport serial cards for Linux?  I'm looking at building
> up a machine to run Conserver to replace a Cisco 2511.
> 
> bill
> 

I *highly* recommend ByteRunner cards.  I've used their RS-232 and 
RS-485 cards in a mission-critical robotics environment, and they never 
have let me down.  16950 UART and stuff too.  Up to eight ports with a 
variety of breakout options.

These are the PCI cards, there are ISA cards too:
http://www.byterunner.com/byterunner/category=8+Serial+(RS-232)+PCI-bus+cards/exact_match=exact

Peace...  Sridhar



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