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- Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part8 of 8 of frequently wanted information
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,news.answers,comp.answers
- From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
- Date: 16 May 1994 10:45:38 GMT
-
- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part8
- Version: $Revision: 3.8 $
- Last-modified: $Date: 94/02/01 12:31:27 $
- URL: http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part8.html
- PPP hardware
- 8. PPP HARDWARE
-
- 8.1 Hardware that does async PPP
-
-
-
- [Started by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) and heavily edited, to include
- information from the net, by i.s.]
-
- This is a list of hardware that supports async PPP, in the form
- of a terminal server or terminal server / router combination.
-
- - Telebit Netblazer
- Phone: +1 800 TELEBIT
- ftp information from ftp.telebit.com
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 23:55:49 -0700
- From: cslater@mondavi.sunnyvale.telebit.com (Charlie Slater)
-
- The NetBlazer supports 24 async lines. An individual line can be
- run at 115.2Kbps. A benchmark by LANQUEST showed the NetBlazer
- could run PPP on 24 async lines at 38.4Kbps. I don't know of any
- customers who run exclusively PPP on 24 lines, but I know of several
- that run mixtures of SLIP and PPP on 24 lines.
-
- OPINION:
-
- From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- A NetBlazer works flawlessly for remote site PPP/SLIP links. As a term
- server it doesn't fit the bill. And a bit costly.
-
- - Livingston Portmaster PM-11
- ftp information from gator.netcom.com:/pub/livingston/
- Livingston Enterprises, Inc: +1 510 426 0770
-
- OPINION:
-
- From: skl@wimsey.bc.ca (Samuel Lam)
- Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1992 07:21:07 GMT
-
- They have 10-, 20- and 30-port configurations. List prices
- ranging from ~US$2.7K to ~US$3.8K. Contact <doug@livingston.com>
- for more information.
-
- - Xylogics MicroAnnex XL (8-16 ports - release 7.0 firmware)
- - Xylogics Annex 3 (8-64 ports - release 7.0 firmware)
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION
-
- From: carlson@xylogics.com (James Carlson)
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 14:28:40 EDT
-
- We don't have a sync PPP version yet, mostly because we don't support
- sync serial yet. That is scheduled for the R8.1 release.
-
- We have had async PPP since our R7.0 release in October 1992 for our
- Annex 3 and Micro Annex XL platforms. PPP is not supported on the (now
- obsolete) Annex 2 nor on the Micro Annex ELS.
-
- The Annex 3 can be customer-upgraded from 8 to 64 async serial lines,
- with full modem controls on each line, and two to three i376 processors.
- (The i376 is an embedded version of the 80386 which does not have an
- MMU.) The motherboard has one i376 and each serial card (maximum two)
- has one. Packet routing and user-level functions are handled on the
- motherboard, while framing and PPP/SLIP link-level processing are done
- on the serial cards.
-
- OPINION
-
- From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- I have been *VERY* happy with my Xylogics terminal servers I have to Anne
- x
- II's and a Annex 3. They were designed for the Unix type person, and tak
- e
- 2 mins to get working on the network. Port configuration will take longe
- r,
- but normally you only have a few sets of configurations "modem dialin hig
- h
- speed" etc. Two thumbs up to this company, now if they didn't cost so
- much. :) :)
-
- - Datability VCP 200/300 ( ??? )
-
- From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- I tested one of these, they come in 8-16 port configurations, a TCP or LA
- T or
- TCP/LAT version. Very VMS like, I would guess a off spring of DECservers
- .
- Cheaper than the Xylogics in Price. Didn't fit my feel due to the VMSish
- help and commands.
-
- - 3com CS/2100 (10 lines max)
-
- [Was mentioned in a posting of Peter Galbavy, summarizing suggestions
- other ppl. made to him about ppp-capable terminal servers. i.s.]
-
- 8.2 Hardware that supports sync PPP
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Original-From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti), but heavily edited by i.s.
-
- Note that sync PPP is rather well established and it's not surprising
- to see lots of vendors using it as their only sync serial line
- protocol. Various folks do various of the configuration options,
- anywhere from a full implementation to very bare bones.
-
- The price point is arbitrary. These are list prices for the cheapest
- box that has at least 1 sync PPP port that runs at 56 kb/sec plus one
- ethernet. Prices approximate, your milage may vary, contact your
- vendor for details.
-
- - Cisco
- E-mail: sales@cisco.com
-
- - Telebit Netblazer
- Phone: +1 800 TELEBIT
- E-mail: ...@telebit.com
-
- NS2-1ESN + SYN35 two EIA-232 SYNC ports and two V.35 sync ports
-
- NB40 + 2 * SYN232 + SYN35 + SYN530 + SYN449 total of 10 sync ports
- (4 EIA-232, 2 V.35 ports, 2 EIA-530 ports, 2 EIA-422/449)
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 23:55:49 -0700
- From: cslater@mondavi.sunnyvale.telebit.com (Charlie Slater)
-
- As of this February (93), the NetBlazer/40 supports up to 10 sync ports.
- All can be run at 128Kbps and several can be run at 2Mbps (I don't have
- any field or independent test data on how many can be run at 2Mbps, but I
- think that the answer is at least 2).
-
- - Livingston
- E-Mail: ...@livingston.com
- IR-4 1 ethernet + 4 56K + 1 RS-232
-
- - Morning Star SNAPlink
- E-Mail: marketing@morningstar.com
- SnapLink SCSI-attached serial interface for Unix systems
- 1 T1 + 2 56K, RS-232 or RS-449
-
- HDLC driver for sun4c ttya and ttyb included with PPP software. Works
- only with SunOS "haven't been able to extract the information from
- Sun that we need to make it work under SunOS 4.1.* or Solaris 2.*.
-
- The HDLC driver works on NeXTs under NeXTStep 2.[12], but because of
- NeXTStep's interrupt structure, we can only get it up to 19200 sync.
-
- It's also available from ftp.morningstar.com:pub/tools/sun-hdlc.tar.Z.
- It started as something from one of Torben Nielsen 's grad students,
- and we're required to pass along any changes we make to it. We hope
- that if someone gets it working under 4.1.*, they'll be nice enough to
- pass their changes along too."
-
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