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From: miw@bunyip.cc.uq.oz (Mark Williams)
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: <2234@bunyip.cc.uq.oz>
Date: 18 Dec 89 04:12:28 GMT
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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.

	You will also need to ask what other goodies are included. For
Example, Annex do a full routing SLIP with RIP, etc. (Not to mention PPP
, and no doubt soon RPC, NFS, database services, and everything else we
bought terminal servers to get out of worrying about.. :-) )

	Some Cisco SLIP implementations are end-node SLIP only. (i.e.
you can connect a node to a network, but not two networks)

	I have heard that Xyplex's next software release will nclude a
routing SLIP, but that there will be no RIP - just static routing.
(Which is ok if there are only one or two IP networks on connected via
the SLIP link)

Mark Williams
miw@cc.uq.oz

Network Engineering,		University of Queensland
Prentice Computer Centre.	Brisbane, Auatralia