I have rocketport running on Linux and FreeBSD 'cause there is no NetBSD
support.  Beautiful and haven't had problems.

On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 02:42:29PM +0200, noud de brouwer wrote:
> > now that i have to rebuild the disk i'd might as well update the serial card.
> > luckely we now know a more modern multi port serial card..cyclades.
> > 
> > please can anyone confirm the
> > Part #        Model        Description                    Enduser1
> > 1-TOPA-3010   CYCLADES-8Zo 8 ports, DB25, Octopus cable   $894
> > is usable as well?? at 115k2? ((highly expensive btw))
> 
> I have been using a PCI version of a 16-port Cyclades for dial-in and PPP
> for 2.5 years now and it has been working well.  However, the board isn't
> as intelligent as you'd expect: The CD1400 chip (I think it was) has only
> 12 byte FIFOs which is worse than the normal ISA serial cards.  The only
> thing that makes Cyclades better is the ability of automatically negating
> the RTS line to stop the incoming data when the FIFO becomes full (the
> normal ISA cards with 16550 UARTs need the CPU to do this).  However, with
> the older Cyclades boards, you need a special cable for this (to swap the
> DTR and RTS signals).
> 
> I don't know of any _good_ serial cards.  How many of you would get one
> if I built one? ;-)
> 
>   -jm
> 
> 


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