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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: SL/IP capable terminal servers
Keywords: Cisco, Annex II terminal servers with SL/IP.
Message-ID: <910@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 89 18:40:35 GMT
References: <993@scifi.UUCP>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <993@scifi.UUCP> njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes:
>I'm interested in user experiences (and calls from salesmen, frankly)
>regarding lan attachable terminal servers (Ethernet or token ring)
>which can do both telnet and SL/IP.  The two brands I've heard of so
>far are Cisco and Annex II.  Any others?  Any user experience.

Yeah.  I've been using an Annex as my gateway for about a year.
It's pretty good as a SLIP server.  The drawback is that it doesn't
advertise my net using RIP (I have to have a hacked-up 4.3 system
run a proxy RIP daemon pointing other machines to the Annex box
for my subnet) and I've haven't had much luck running routed on my
SLIP machine so that the other machines on my local net are reachable--
the Annex appears to crash when I run routed on my SLIP/ethernet gateway
machine, and I haven't figured out how to install a static route
on the Annex.

Now, I haven't had the energy to chase this thru Annex software
support.  The annex box isn't owned by me.


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Steve Dyer
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