At 12:00 PM 9/14/2007 -0400, Trash Compactor wrote:
Alternatively, you can put puc(4) cards into an OpenBSD box or hook
up a tangle of ucom(4) adapters to a tree of powered USB hubs
There are several multi-port USB-serial adapters available. You can get
bus-powered ones up to around 8 DB9
*OR* you can save yourself a ton of heacaches and get a 'Terminal Server'
(as many ports as you wish) at the surplus store for $10-$50US. Route it's
traffic through an OBSD machine with - problem solved.
In case memory is short, in the old days users HAD actual ASCII terminals
ON their desk to do work <g>, which got done quickly & efficiently! None of
this network stuff, virii, spam, Internet Exploder, or other Windoze
attack-atracting tools.
Lee
