RWATKINS@G.BBN.COM (03/01/88)
Does anyone have handy the phone number of Encore and Cisco ? Is anyone using Bridge CS200's (in particular, hanging printers off of ports) ? Are you loading them via a Bridge Server, a PC Server or a Sun ? Does the Encore and Cisco product allow loading and remote port configuration from a Unix/Ultrix machine ? Does anyone have printers connected to those ? Thank you Ron Watkins BBN 617-873-2817
clyde@ut-emx.UUCP (Head UNIX Hacquer) (03/05/88)
We here have Encore Annexes, most of which are connected to our Encore Multimax, but we are using one for general Ethernet access. They seem to work fairly well, and you can upload/download port configurations from any UNIX host, since Encore supplies the source for the Annex administrator program. An Annex has 16 serial ports and one parallel printer port. We are using Printronix P300 (I think) on a parallel port. You can remote access serial ports on an Annex from a network host via telnet, if they have been set up so, and from the UCB line printer system. If you want to run a simple serial printer this way, it will work - I don't know about "smarter" printers such as Apple LaserWriters. The Annex boxes are nice, but for general usage I would probably look at the Cisco boxes, for they have (on paper at least) more useful features (such as Serial Line IP). Encore phone #: 1-800-336-2673 -Clyde Hoover -- Shouter-To-Dead-Parrots @ Univ. of Texas Computation Center; Austin, Texas clyde@ngp.utexas.edu; ...!ut-sally!ut-ngp!clyde "It's a sort of a threat, you see. I've never been very good at them myself, but I've told they can be very effective."