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From: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ethernet Terminal Servers?
Message-ID: <1955@encore.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 12:34:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: encore.1955
Posted: Thu Sep 17 12:34:31 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 15:00:23 EDT
References: <106600015@datacube> <14575@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: loverso@encore.UUCP (John LoVerso)
Organization: Encore Computer Corp, Marlboro, MA
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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.

Just to correct a few things:
Since February we've been sending out Annex releases that support both
IEN116 and Bind name servers.  The Annex does run a listen-only rwhod
that will update the host name cache, which is also updated by name
server responses.  The cache is used to provide minimum uniqueness
matching on hostnames.  We support routing via routed and ICMP
redirects (the current release includes 4.3 TCP/IP, 99% straight from
the 4.3 release tape).  We support rlogin, outgoing telnet, incoming
telnet (to provide a milking capability), and a proprietary remote
device protocol for Annexes used to connect to Multimax computers.  The
later is only in Annex-MX's and actually uses SysV and 4.2 BSD tty
drivers in the Annex.  Configuration is done via EEPROM, and
booting/dumping is accomplished via a Courier-like ERPC.  As for the
smarts for editting, the LEAP protocol is actually a smart editting
front-end which can be adapted to any host editor.

John LoVerso, Encore Computer Corp
loverso@multimax.arpa, encore!loverso