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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.periphs,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Terminal Servers?
Summary: Bridgeing on TCP
Message-ID: <480@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 12:18:00 GMT
References: <147@iquery.UUCP> <12380@cup.portal.com> <689@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <689@hscfvax.harvard.edu>, pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>   I won't pretend to have any real experience with these.  But the overall
>   sense of the net, as I interpret it, seems to be that "TCP/IP" and "Bridge"
>   don't mix too well.  Encore and Cisco have gotten much more favorable res-
>   ponse.

We have a few Bridge servers and they work just fine through TCP.  I like
the fact that they boot themselves instead of waiting for a host to load
software (the base unit has a floppy drive with the programs in it).  The
only problem we have had is that ULTRIX kind of supports 8 bit mode, and
other UNIXs don't.  Leave everything 7 bits and you won't have problems.
We have experienced no hardware problems in 4 years (knock knock :-)

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