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Article #324Re: What terminal server should I buy?
From: Ivor D'Souza
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:18
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:18
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karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:
: I need to buy a terminal or communications server to meet the following
: requirements:
:
: - Ethernet interface with choice of thin- or thick-ethernet
: connections;
: - Minimum of 16 dial-in ports, with ability to add more;
: - Dial-in speeds of up to 38.4 Kbps;
: - Minimum of 1 MB RAM, expandable;
: - Security features (ID/password at least, maybe logging too)
: - Support for LAT, SLIP/cSLIP/PPP, DNS, SNMP
:
: 3Com, Cisco, Telebit and Xylogics (Annex) all appear to offer products
: that meet the minimum requirements. Are there any other vendors? Does
: anybody have any recommendations (comp.dcom.sys.cisco readers are
: allowed to recommend Cisco :^}) or caveats, either specific or general?
: Please respond by email, as I don't ordinarily take these groups. TIA.
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I would also look at XYPLEX Terminal Servers.
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