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From: robert@cantuar.UUCP (Robert Biddle)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: TCP/IP Terminal Server/Concentrators?
Message-ID: <120@cantuar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 02:33:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: cantuar.120
Posted: Thu May  7 02:33:38 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 14-May-87 06:39:06 EDT
Reply-To: robert@cantuar.UUCP (Robert Biddle)
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Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Keywords: TCP DECnet Unix BSD Server

We run 4.3BSD on our Vax 750 and also have a Sun and expect to get more
Suns. The Sun and Vax are ethernetted and use TCP/IP. For terminal
access at the moment we use concentrators on a Cambridge Ring.
However, we now also want to get a Terminal Server for the ethernet.
This gives us a fall-back to the flaky Ring hardware, and might also
yield useful compatability with a campus-wide ethernet being introduced.
So, what terminal server should we consider getting? It must be TCP/IP,
but as the campus-wide ethernet will be predominately DECnet, some nod
in that direction would be useful. 
We don't have much money to spend, but on the other hand are irritated by
the Ring hardware letting us down and don't want to see that again.

We're a bit new to ethernet gadgets, and I suspect this question is old hat,
so *mail* any advice, please; I'll post a summary if anything particularly
interesting turns up.

Thanks very much,

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Robert Biddle    Office: +64 3 482 009 x8352   Home: +64 3 64741; +64 21 76205
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Computer Science, University Of Canterbury, Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand