<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Doug,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">So, you need more async serial ports than the two that came on the system?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, I'm starting an ISP with dial-in modems, and I currently just have a Sparcstation. </div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Most likely the listing you found was for a Sun HSI card, which in general was<br>
synch serial for supportint X.25 connections. Probably not what you are looking for,<br>
but was very common so there are lots out there. <br>
There was the SAI (Serial-Async) card, but I had never seen one in the wild.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you're right, I found the manual for the Sun HSI card, and it can't speak "low speed" serial RS-232. </div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What most people did needing more async serial ports than 2 was to run a terminal server<br>
box over the network, such as the Xylogics or Cisco ones.<br>
We had some MicroAnnex XL Xylogics boxes (8 or 16 ports).<br>
Connect up a bunch of modems into the MicroAnnexXL box, and then <br>
they could be setup to telnet/rsh into the Sun box automatically when dialed into<br>
once the user authenticated via whatever method (probably RADIUS).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the tip, I'll check into Xylogics.. I actually have a Xyplex terminal server, but it has been a total pain to work with. I know Cisco had the AS5300 with digital modems, but I'm not familiar with their other terminal server options, I'll check it out.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>