njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) (12/14/89)
I'm interested in user experiences (and calls from salesmen, frankly) regarding lan attachable terminal servers (Ethernet or token ring) which can do both telnet and SL/IP. The two brands I've heard of so far are Cisco and Annex II. Any others? Any user experience. My phone number is (914) 789-7033. Addresses are in the signature. -- Nick Simicich --- uunet!bywater!scifi!njs --- njs@ibm.com (Internet)
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (12/18/89)
In article <993@scifi.UUCP> njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes: >I'm interested in user experiences (and calls from salesmen, frankly) >regarding lan attachable terminal servers (Ethernet or token ring) >which can do both telnet and SL/IP. The two brands I've heard of so >far are Cisco and Annex II. Any others? Any user experience. Yeah. I've been using an Annex as my gateway for about a year. It's pretty good as a SLIP server. The drawback is that it doesn't advertise my net using RIP (I have to have a hacked-up 4.3 system run a proxy RIP daemon pointing other machines to the Annex box for my subnet) and I've haven't had much luck running routed on my SLIP machine so that the other machines on my local net are reachable-- the Annex appears to crash when I run routed on my SLIP/ethernet gateway machine, and I haven't figured out how to install a static route on the Annex. Now, I haven't had the energy to chase this thru Annex software support. The annex box isn't owned by me. -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu
miw@bunyip.cc.uq.oz (Mark Williams) (12/18/89)
njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes: >I'm interested in user experiences (and calls from salesmen, frankly) >regarding lan attachable terminal servers (Ethernet or token ring) >which can do both telnet and SL/IP. The two brands I've heard of so >far are Cisco and Annex II. Any others? Any user experience. You will also need to ask what other goodies are included. For Example, Annex do a full routing SLIP with RIP, etc. (Not to mention PPP , and no doubt soon RPC, NFS, database services, and everything else we bought terminal servers to get out of worrying about.. :-) ) Some Cisco SLIP implementations are end-node SLIP only. (i.e. you can connect a node to a network, but not two networks) I have heard that Xyplex's next software release will nclude a routing SLIP, but that there will be no RIP - just static routing. (Which is ok if there are only one or two IP networks on connected via the SLIP link) Mark Williams miw@cc.uq.oz Network Engineering, University of Queensland Prentice Computer Centre. Brisbane, Auatralia
dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) (12/18/89)
In article <910@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: >Yeah. I've been using an Annex as my gateway for about a year. >It's pretty good as a SLIP server. The drawback is that it doesn't >advertise my net using RIP (I have to have a hacked-up 4.3 system >run a proxy RIP daemon pointing other machines to the Annex box >for my subnet) and I've haven't had much luck running routed on my >SLIP machine so that the other machines on my local net are reachable-- >the Annex appears to crash when I run routed on my SLIP/ethernet gateway >machine, and I haven't figured out how to install a static route >on the Annex. A couple of people have pointed out to me that Annex software release 4.1 is very robust and should not crash. My experience was with a pre-4.1 release. In fact, on the basis of their responses, having checked that the Annex was now running 4.1, I tried running routed again on my SLIP/ethernet gateway machine today with great success. I've also been told that Proxy-RIP isn't needed provided you RTFM for the new release, so I'll plan on looking at that this week. Once these are solved, an Annex box makes a great SLIP server. (In fact, it was a fine SLIP server earlier; it just wasn't a complete gateway.) -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu
neil@cpd.com (Neil Gorsuch) (12/23/89)
njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) writes: >I'm interested in user experiences (and calls from salesmen, frankly) >regarding lan attachable terminal servers (Ethernet or token ring) >which can do both telnet and SL/IP. The two brands I've heard of so >far are Cisco and Annex II. Any others? Any user experience. Why not just find a "non-expandable desktop" workstation on your network that has some spare cpu time, and put a bunch of serial ports on it? Then you can run any kind of SLIP/routing/telnet/dialup software/connections that you want. Of course, the trick is to be able to add a bunch of serial ports to a desktop and use the standard serial drivers already in the workstation, so that the new serial ports look like part of the machine, rather than being out on the net somewhere. As you might have guessed by now, we sell such a box that happens to attach to the SCSI bus on a workstation. Happy holidays 8-) -- Neil Gorsuch INTERNET: neil@cpd.com UUCP: uunet!zardoz!neil MAIL: 1209 E. Warner, Santa Ana, CA, USA, 92705 PHONE: +1 714 546 1100 Uninet, a division of Custom Product Design, Inc. FAX: +1 714 546 3726 AKA: root, security-request, uuasc-request, postmaster, usenet, news