stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (03/10/89)
Can anyone make any specific recommendations for Ethernet terminal
servers to be used with some VAX'es running 4.3 BSD.
I also have a few general questions on these devices:
- do they typically use the Telnet protocol to the host ?
- is the terminal input sent to the host one character at a time, and do
any of them support any form of multiplexing of input/output
for multiple terminals into single protocol packets ?
Thanks.
Richard Stevens
Health Systems International, New Haven, CT
stevens@hsi.com
... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevensclh@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen) (11/11/89)
Having watched this newsgroup for awhile, I now feel brave enough to solicit opinions on Ethernet terminal servers. We have half a dozen Sun 3/[56]0s in our Vancouver office, and I would like to provide some ports for about four to six terminals. I would also dearly love to be able to attach our two laser printers (a Xerox 2700 and NEC 890) to the server. These printers can run either serial or parallel. Also, we have a Telebit Trailblazer attached to one machine, which I wouldn't mind moving to the server. It has to handle both incoming and outgoing calls on the same line. We have a four-port CMC Transerver, as remarketed by Artecon, attached to our three Suns in our Prince George office. This seems to work well as a vanilla terminal server, but we haven't tried printers, plotters, or modems on it. We also have a Bridge something-or-other at a project overseas; my recollection of it is that it worked well for terminal service but needed additional software support for printers, modems, etc. It seems that most of these devices end up getting connected through a master/slave pseudo-tty and Internet socket, in order that they can function nicely with daemons and related stuff that expect to talk to serial/parallel ports. Is this true? Any and all opinions on the above much appreciated. I will summarize any responses I get. One of our forwarders is, uh, somewhat unreliable, so I have enclosed several addresses below. Thanks in advance, Chris Hermansen Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants Voice: 1 604 733 0731 302 - 958 West 8th Avenue FAX: 1 604 733 0634 Vancouver B.C. CANADA uunet!ubc-cs!van-bc!tacitus!clh V5Z 1E5 -OR- clh@tfic.bc.ca -OR- Chris_Hermansen@mtsg.ubc.ca