> > I'm thinking of building a consoleserver using some older i386 (486/66
> > or pentium 100 or so) and putting in some multi-serial boards serving
> 
> Why not just buy a Portmaster-2. It is designed for just this type of
> application. It will be cheeper than your investment in time and hardware.

Hmm, let's see: here in Gemany I'll have to spend around 5.000
DeutscheMarks (thats roughly $2645) for a Portmaster-2e w/ 10 serial
ports. Taking some oldish pc (which I have lots of, as they don't like
N[in]T[endo] ;-) and spending around DM 610 (~ $322) for an 8-port
VS800-PCI card is much easier to sell to my boss, I think. And as I'm
at an University here, investment in time doesn't really count... :-(

That's why I asked for recommendations of multi-serial boards for
peecees...

but thanks anyway,

    -kurt

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