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From: jqj@uoregon.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: routers vs Bridge CS200s?
Message-ID: <1914@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 2 May 88 19:18:53 GMT
Reply-To: jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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Our evolving campus network consists of a set of Ethernets, some of
them linked by IP/XNS routers.  In addition, we have a fairly large number
of Bridge CS200 tcp/ip terminal servers.  We envision locating terminal
servers scattered throughout campus.  The problem is that Bridge
servers can't boot across a gateway.  Our solutions seem to be:
  (1)   buy a Bridge network management/bootstrap unit for each IP
        subnet.  At $4K or more each, that's pretty expensive.
  (2)   stop buying Bridge terminal servers.  Concentrate all existing
        Bridge boxes on the small number of subnets that have NCS
        boxes.  Buy Annex or cisco (they boot thru gateways) for other 
        networks.
  (3)   stop buying Bridge CS200s, and instead buy CS100s or something
        with built in floppies for bootstrap.  That raises the cost
        per line, and puts machines with floppies in telephone closets
        all over campus -- a maintenance headache.
  (4)   figure out a way to boot our CS200s through a gateway.
     
Has anyone out there solved this problem yet?