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From: narten@percival.cs.purdue.edu (Thomas Narten)
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Terminal Servers?
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 21:27:26 EDT
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In article  <14575@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>
>And now a few that I've not used (much):
>
>Encore Annex:  16 lines, fairly nice.  UNIX-like feel to it.  Supports
>Rlogin.  Does not use any kind of name server.  Nasty rumor is that it
>wiretaps rwho packets to load the host name cache.  This is a serious
>deficiency.  Has some smarts for off-loading stuff like GNU EMACS edit
>work into the server.

We have a couple of annex boxes, and the versions we have do support
the nameserver. They also listen to routes advertised via RIP, and I
believe we finally did get them to understand static routes. Your
comments about the rwho nonsense are true for an earlier version we
ran.

Thats not to say they work perfectly. We have some problems when we
configure them to understand modem control.  I am not sure whether the
software we are running is a an official release or what. In any case,
don't discount them without first checking into them.
-- 
Thomas Narten
narten@cs.purdue.edu or {ihnp4, allegra}!purdue!narten