fair@apple.com (Erik E. Fair) (11/13/90)
I am in the market for a device that will do two things: 1. Accept X.25 calls and then allow outbound connections to TELNET servers on an Internet. 2. Accept inbound TCP connections, and then allow outbound X.25 calls to destinations on an X.25 network. In effect, I want a protocol coverter for remote login protocols. It would also be nice to be able to restrict who can use this network resource through some kind of access control and/or password mechanism. I'd like the TCP implementation to behave well on the Internet, although the majority of time it will be used for local ethernet connections. I'd like the X.25 implementation to be as completely configurable as possible, given the rather wide variations in X.25 service providers in the U.S. I have two promising candidates so far: the cisco Systems Protocol Converter the Datability Vista VCP-1000 This posting is to request information from the assembled multitudes of the network: 1. If any of you have purchased either or both of the above named devices, I'd love to hear accolades, curses, etc. relating to your experiences with them. 2. Who have I missed? Are there other products which might fill my need in this area? Thanks for your time & trouble, Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com