improvement.
Eddie Strohmier
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> Eddie Strohmier wrot
Eddie Strohmier wrote:
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> The Rocketport is a multiport serial card that will support
> 4, 8, 16, or I believe they have up to 32. I used to use it
> for dialin for an ISP I once ran but in your case you can
> use your internal modem as long as it is supported by RH
> 6.0.
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day, January 26, 2001 1:36 AM
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> Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> >
> > As far as hardware how many modems do you plan
> on running?
> > Multiport cards like Rocketport are easy to
> configure and
>
Eddie Strohmier wrote:
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> As far as hardware how many modems do you plan on running?
> Multiport cards like Rocketport are easy to configure and
> then there is cyclades but requires to the kernel to be
> recompiled. I have used both and the Rocketport ISA seems to
> be the more stable but cycla
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> You can get most of what you need to know from
> the PPP HOWTO:
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> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/
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> It's been a while, but last I knew there were
> vendors still selling ISA
> multip
As far as hardware how many modems do you plan on running?
Multiport cards like Rocketport are easy to configure and
then there is cyclades but requires to the kernel to be
recompiled. I have used both and the Rocketport ISA seems to
be the more stable but cyclades PCI seems to have better
port s
You need to set up /etc/inittab so that the serial device
will answer will initiate the modem via mgetty or agetty. I
usually use mgetty. A line like this will initiate you
modem:
s0:2345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D /dev/ttyS1
Do a kill -HUP 1 to re-read file.
This would be for a device on seria
You can get most of what you need to know from the PPP HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/
It's been a while, but last I knew there were vendors still selling ISA
multiport serial cards. I recommend Cyclades for a start, their Linux
support dates back several years now and I had ver
