🚀 go-pugleaf

[ apologies to those who have already seen this on the morningstar list ... ]

we are looking into purchasing a workstation of some sort to use as a
ppp-based router that various darpa contractors can login to and obtain
ip connectivity to our center.  since we're currently a happy
morningstar customer :-) and bascially a sun shop, my inclination is to
purchase a sparcstation and outfit it with an 8 or 16 port multiplexor,
v.32/v.32bis modems & mst's ppp to handle these on demand ip calls.
however, there are a number of alternatives:

	1. a telebit netblazer - although we have had good experience
	   with telebit's products, i have some reservations (perhaps
	   completely unfounded) on its performance versus a
	   sparcstation as a router along with the fact that it is yet
	   another type of router to administer.  on the other hand, we
	   already have two proteons, a cisco, a fastpath, so what's
	   another router?  any real life comments, positive or
	   negative, would be appreciated on this one.  for example,
	   how flexible is it with regard to chat scripts, etc.  how
	   easy is it to administer, backup, etc.

	2. some other sort of workstation running mst's software - any
	   folks care to recommend or comment on what other sort of
	   workstations might work well in this envrionment?

assuming we do go with the sparcstation running mst's ppp, can anyone
comment on the various multiplexor options available for the platform?
i have seen sbus based products as well at least one scsi based
multiplexor but i haven't really followed the reviews of such products
in the journals, etc.

[ i can't believe i'm actually thinking of getting a host based
multiplexor ... after various problems we have had with the alm/alm-2
line, i thought it was dedicated terminal servers forevermore :-) ]

thanks in advance for any info and i'll summarize if folks are
interested,

dsc

`you know i don't see you when she walks into the room'