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From: joe@cfa250.harvard.EDU (Joseph Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Terminal servers TCP/IP
Message-ID: <646@cfa247.cfa250.harvard.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 88 19:45:36 GMT
References: <133*eidem@regtek.unit.uninett>
Organization: Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.
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in article <133*eidem@regtek.unit.uninett>, eidem%regtek.unit.uninett@TOR.NTA.NO (Kjell Eidem) asks:
> 
> Connecting terminals to TCP/IP hosts via terminal servers.
> We will now connect Sun workstations to this localnet, and the
> question is if it is possible from some sort of terminal server
> to connect the terminal to a Sun in the same way we can connect
> to a Vax via a Decserver.

We have a net that includes Suns, Ultrix MicroVAXen and a VMS MicroVAX
running Wollongong's TCP/IP software.  We use a Bridge CS/100 Terminal
Server to connect terminals to all of these machines.  The speed isn't
blinding, and we sometimes get hangs that we've not been able to figure
out, but the thing basically works.  The firm's address is (or was, as of April
1986;  they've merged with 3COM since, but I don't know if that's
affected their whereabouts):

	Bridge Communications
	2081 Stierlin Road
	Mountain View, CA 94043
	(415) 969-4400
	

I also received an ad recently for the "Maxserver 5000", which claims to
provide "an integrated package for local and wide area networking and
TCP/IP connectivity" as well as (I think) LAT support.  I know *nothing*
about the reality or performance of this product.  The company is:

	Xyplex, Inc.
	100 Domino Drive
	Concord, MA 01742
	USA
	1-800-338-5316

Hope this is of use.