The OS on the Dell is Win2k Advanced Server, but my Linux server will be joining it in the garage soon.

I was expecting to write some of my own code anyway, just some simple perl or VB to pull the data off of the COM port and feed it to MRTG.

Software I can do, hardware is more of a struggle. Where is that damn soldering iron....
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