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From: jeh@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: X.25 terminal/port servers out there?
Message-ID: <4355.26879a8d@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 90 21:25:33 GMT
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We have an HP 9000/825 that we are about to connect to a
commercial database vendor via an X.25 link over a leased line.
HP doesn't sell a PAD card for this machine that we can use for
straight X.25 connections. For various reasons, including the
lack of expandability and the sheer ugliness of it, we don't like
the traditional solution of 16 async ports with 16 cables
connecting to an X.25 PAD.  Another one of the solutions that
I've thought of is to buy an inexpensive Unix machine that has an
inexpensive PAD available for it, but this adds up. 

What I'm really looking for is the X.25 equivalent of an Annex 
box that has an Ethernet port on one side and the appropriate 
synchronous serial port on the other, and can be used for dial in 
and dial out over an X.25 network.  Does such a thing exist?

I'll summarize if need be.

  --jh

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John Hood, Mann Library, Cornell University  
jhood@albert.mannlib.cornell.edu