9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
5:54 a.m.
On 6/9/06, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> 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.
One word: Sangoma
http://www.sangoma.com/main/products/wanpipe
Supports Linux out-of-the-box.
Sangoma also has a special low-profile card for the Soekris. So that
you can hang off a T1/E1 off something about the same size of a VHS
tape. Presumably supports Linux, *BSD.
http://www.soekris.com/bundles.htm