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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: TCP/IP terminal concentrators
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 02:59:22 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 02:59:22 1986
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In article <890@bu-cs.UUCP> bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes:
>
>Besides the Bridge TCP/IP terminal concentrators you might want to
>compare the Annex made by Encore Computers (Something, Mass.)
>I don't know much about the Bridge, I hear they are good, 

Having used both extensively, I recommend the Annex.

>The Annex has
>16-ports, uses either rlogin or telnet, can listen to rwho packets
>(is that right? I'm pretty sure) to build its own host table or you
>can just set things up yourself.

Yes, the Annex does seem to understand rwho. It can build a host table
and I assume rwho is how it does it.  The Annex also listens to routed
for sites like us who have more than one internet router to remote
networks. The Bridge CS100 does not have printer ports, rlogin, rwho,
or routed.

>It requires software on a host to
>download it (it's written in C, we ported it to a SUN/3 in about
>30 minutes, should work on any reasonable 4.2 system, they've already
>ported it to a number of systems

This is an advantage. Much better than running around updating forty
or fifty floppies like the CS100 requires. (We don't have Ethernet
terminal servers in large scale use but when we do we'll have that
many to maintain.)

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