9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
4:50 p.m.
On 6/9/2006 at 5:18 PM Ethan Dicks wrote:
I am unaware of a PCI-based sync serial card. I think
by the time
that PCI was becoming dominant, most folks who wanted a 56K line to
the outer world wanted it to speak ATM or ppp (not Bisync or SNA),
thus it was reasonable to offload that task to a TCP/IP router. There
are *plenty* of models of Cisco router that you can hang a CSU/DSU off
of, but I don't recall ever seeing that done with a PCI-based machine.
They''re out there! Here's one from Quatech:
http://www.quatech.com/catalog/rs232s_pci.php
Cheers,
Chuck