> Original Query > >Is it possible to install more than one (or two) serial ports on a sun >(eg a low-end Ultra class) in order to have 3 (or more) dialin lines? Perhaps I should have gone into greater details of the need. We have an ancient dialin device that "often" works. I can buy a kick-arse self-contained unit from cisco (2600 series router with 8 port network module and 56K modems) but that would cost on the order of $6K and there would still be the issue of security/password-management. I like the idea of somehow connecting modems directly to a sun where security can be easily locked down, users could have a restricted shell to eg only change their password, crack could be used to enforce passwords and BTW, we have bunches of low-end suns (Sparcs and an Ultra or two). Furthermore, we generally only have no more than two, possibly three lines in use simultaneously so were it possible to connect two or three 56K modems to one or two suns that could operate simultaneously, this could be a cheap solution. I haven't made a choice yet but everyones input was invaluable. Thanks to the following people (and those still about to answer ;) Julian Simpson Ken Germann Mike Salehi Seth Rothenberg Jay Lessert John T. Douglass SUMMARY: Several pointed me to Digi for port concentrators, others to terminal servers Useful URLs include: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/pci/pci.cards.cat.html http://www.sun.com/pci/pci.cards.ihv.html http://www.stokely.com/ http://www.auroratech.com http://www.digi.com/solutions/mportserialcards/apcx.shtml =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Stern TSI TelSys Manager, Information Systems 410-872-3906Received on Wed May 9 13:31:38 2001
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