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From: danq@sag4.BERKELEY.EDU (Daniel Quinlan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ethernet Terminal Servers?
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Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 12:33:03 EDT
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We use an annex 16-port box with a network of suns.  After some initial 
difficulties, it has been running with no problems for several months.
It does use the name server which came with Sun's 3.3.  It is packaged
nicely, rather compact, and has the advantage (if you will have several)
that it can be configured and booted from a program on the host.  The two
disadvantages are a) it uses 9-pin connectors, rather than standard 25 
pin and b) you can't tell whether people are using it from the configuration
program -- this makes it somewhat inconvenient for rebooting.
When we compared it to the Bridge box a year and a half ago, the annex
was more reliable.

Daniel Quinlan
Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berke
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