12 Nov
2002
12 Nov
'02
11:39 p.m.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
This can also be done with a Linux box (a homebrew terminal server).
Multi-port serial cards can be found for very reasonable prices.
Maybe if I pick up a cheap old laptop, Pent I or 486 even, Linux and a
PCMCIA serial port box... hmmm...
I stress that this would only run sproadically, and from a dial-up line
that I get 48K out of most days... so I don't see any reason for more
than two or three users at once.
I'm sure there's a package that someone's already written to do this too.
The trick is to locate same, and make it work...
Cheers
John