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Morning Star Express Router (June 2, 1994)
Standards Support:
- The Internet standard Frame Relay as defined in RFC1490
- The Internet standard Point to Point Protocol (PPP) as defined in RFCs
1548, 1549, 1332, 1333, 1334, with
- Link-level error detection (16 or 32 bit FCS)
- Asynchronous control character mapping
- Packet size negotiation at connection time
- Physical link loopback detection
- IP address negotiation and assignment
- PPP Addr/Ctl field and Protocol field compression
- Link-level authentication by PAP or CHAP
- Link status monitoring by LQM
- The popular Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), as described in RFC 1055
- automatically detects whether peer does TCP header compression (CSLIP)
Optimal Performance:
- `VJ' TCP packet header compression for SLIP and PPP, as per RFC 1144
- Asynchronous speeds to 115,200 baud
- Synchronous speeds to T1 (1.544 Mb/sec) or CEPT (2.048 Mb/sec)
Ease of Management:
- SNMP MIB-II (RFC 1442, RFC 1445, RFC 1448, RFC 1450)
- RIP (RFC 1058), RIP-II (RFC 1387 and RFC 1388), and optional OSPF (RFC 1247).
- Easy and extremely flexible configuration
- Two RS-232 (sync or async), one V.35 (sync), and one AUI (Ethernet LAN)
- Transparent on-demand dialup link establishment and idle line disconnection
- Flexible `chat script' for dialup connection management
- Operates as either the remote (calling) or hub (answering) site
- Uses most asynchronous modems over dialup or dedicated lines
- Configuration/negotiation problems reported in English, to console or syslog
- Monitors PPP link status, reliability, and performance with LQM
- Multiple line failover for redundancy and high availability
- Thorough, readable documentation includes examples and troubleshooting tips
- Flash memory for easy software upgrades, or can be downloaded by tftp
Powerful Security Features:
- Link-level peer authentication by PAP or CHAP
- Packet filtering and logging by protocol, source, destination,
source routing, etc.
- Tunnels hidden network via TCP over existing internet
- Encrypts traffic between known-secure hosts or networks
- Returns appropriate ICMP Destination Unreachable codes
- Works with dialback modems
Interoperates with network connectivity providers:
- PSInet - Merit - NEARnet - CSN
- OARnet - Alternet - BARRNet - most EUnet members
- CICnet - JvNCnet - MSEN - ANS
- CERFnet - PREPnet - Sesquinet - NorthwestNet
- AARNet - UKnet - PIPEX - Demon Internet Services
- CyberNET - NETCOM - OLEANE - Magnadata
- any other network that provides dialup or leased line IP access via SLIP,
PPP, or Frame Relay
Interoperates with most other Frame Relay switches and routers:
- Cascade
- cisco
- ... more testing as we speak ...
Interoperates with other asynchronous and synchronous PPPs and SLIPs
- Telebit NetBlazer - Livingston Portmaster IR-4
- 3Com NetBuilder - NAT LANB/820
- Proteon cnx500 - Cayman GatorBox
- Brixton Systems BrxPPP - KA9Q
- MERIT's MacPPP - ISC SLIP
- Network Systems 6400 - Novell LAN WorkPlace
- Novell MP Router - Datability terminal server
- FTP Software PC/TCP - Intercon TCP/Connect II
- Wellfleet - cisco AGS, CGS, IGS, 500-CS, STS-10
- BSDI PPP - HP PPL (SLIP)
- Xylogics Annex-3 terminal server
- Marble Associates Teleconnect
- The popular free UNIX PPPs
Works with any asynchronous dial-up modem; pre-configured for
- Most Telebit modems - Codex 3260 series
- NEC N9631 - AT&T 2296
- UDS V.3224 and V.3229 - Forval SA9600, SA14400
- AT&T Datakit - Practical Peripherals 9600SA
- Hayes V-series Ultra SmartModems
- US Robotics V.32 and V.32bis
- Digicom 9624E+ and V.32bis
- Hayes ISDN System Adapter
You can get the entire user guide in PostScript via anonymous FTP from
ftp.MorningStar.Com/pub/Express/MST-Express-User-Guide.ps.Z, or we'll
be happy to send it to you via e-mail, or even on paper. For more
information, contact Dean Schell or Kate Murphy of our Marketing
group:
Morning Star Technologies
3518 Riverside Drive, suite 101
Columbus OH USA 43221-1754
+1 614 451 1883 (voice)
+1 800 558 7827 (voice)
+1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
Marketing@Morningstar.Com (sales e-mail)
Support@Morningstar.Com (technical e-mail)
ftp.Morningstar.Com:pub/Express/* (anonymous FTP)
http://WWW.Morningstar.Com/ (WWW)
Acknowledgements:
- This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.