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From: irwin@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: PC Ethernet terminal multiplexer?
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 10:22:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 10:22:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!irwin    Jan 23 09:22:00 1986


We have two of the Bridge CS-1s, with 32 ports each. These are very
versatile devices. You can purchase one with 8, 16, 24 or 32 ports.
If you got one with 8 ports, it could support a rack of 8 modems.
It has a floppy, and configuration can be set up such that it scans
the 8 ports. You call the scan, via ethernet, it will connect you to
the first free or unused port in the scan. All of your PCs could make
use of the 8 modems on a share first come first serve basis.

We use one of the Bridge units in a building down the street from our
main building, giving terminals there access to our machines. We also
support a couple of printers at the terminal building on the Bridge
ports. The other Bridge, we have in our machine room and have it's
ports connected to the ports on two 3B20S machines, so that it can
be accessed via TCP/IP from our Vaxens. The hosts tables can be on
the floppies, or they can be on a server on the net, such that the
Bridge can find it's way to hosts on the cable. It even understands
how to find it's way through gateways to subnets. We are very pleased
with ours.