Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!omepd!uoregon!jqj From: jqj@uoregon.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Terminal servers over ethernet? Message-ID: <2295@uoregon.uoregon.edu> Date: 29 Jun 88 14:19:23 GMT References: <320@ucrmath.UUCP> Reply-To: jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson) Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR Lines: 28 In article ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >The UB server is an unmitigated piece of crap. >... >We [also] ran Bridge servers here for several years ... >My main observation on Bridge products in general is that they work >as claimed, are really reliable, but they don't always get the protocols >right. For example the terminal servers have some small problems in the >options negotiation and they don't do ICMP at all. They also don't do >Domain name server, but I here you can get that now, if you have a box >with enough memory in it to run their new software. I second Ron's comments, though his Bridge/3Com observations are somewhat out of date. I would not recommend that anyone run the old Bridge software since the new stuff has been out for more than 6 months. Even on old small-memory CS-1s they've fixed their ICMP problems. The CS-200 (their best current product) running the current 20000 software seems to have very few IP-related problems and be very cost-effective for small clusters of lines. Remaining problems we have seen here: 1/ we're trying to track down what may be a bug in Bridge's name resolver code. What seems to be happening is that the CS200 occasionally sticks the address of an authoritative domain name server in its cache instead of the address of the host it requested. Anyone else seen this problem? (note we are currently not even sure the bug is in the CS200). 2/ very serious problem: Bridge servers can't be booted across gateways. That means in subnetted environments that you need to buy servers with floppy drives in them or put a boot server on every subnet that has terminal servers.