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- From: ivor@occs (Ivor D'Souza)
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- Subject: Re: What terminal server should I buy?
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:18:34 GMT
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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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