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From: neil@cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: SL/IP capable terminal servers
Keywords: Cisco, Annex II terminal servers with SL/IP.
Message-ID: <1989Dec23.080110.16157@cpd.com>
Date: 23 Dec 89 08:01:10 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.

Why not just find a "non-expandable desktop" workstation on your
network that has some spare cpu time, and put a bunch of serial ports
on it?  Then you can run any kind of SLIP/routing/telnet/dialup
software/connections that you want.  Of course, the trick is to be
able to add a bunch of serial ports to a desktop and use the standard
serial drivers already in the workstation, so that the new serial
ports look like part of the machine, rather than being out on the net
somewhere.  As you might have guessed by now, we sell such a box that
happens to attach to the SCSI bus on a workstation.  Happy holidays 8-)




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