dieter@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Dieter Rothmeier) (06/23/89)
We are looking for information regarding good hardware/software combinations for running tcp-ip over ethernet. The pc's are running dos and range from 8086's to 286's and 386's. Thanks in advance, Dieter
hd@tavi.rice.edu (Hubert D.) (06/23/89)
We've got several PC machines with NCSA telnet and micom/interlan ni5210 boards. These boards are quite robust (reliable) and use the intel 82586 ethernet chip. The ni5210 has been arround for a while and can be purchased in the 200 to 300 dollar range. The board is capable of connecting to both thin and thick ethernet. NCSA telnet is good software. NCSA telnet is faster than FTP's telnet on screen updates but the keyboard mapping is weaker. We are using the NCSA telnet version available from Clarkson University which has the added feature of optionally using bootp to get the network info and the ip address of the PC's from a server. This feature allows the administrator to distribute one version of the software to all the PC's on the local network. When new machines are added, a single entry in the bootptab on the server containing the 48 bit ethernet address of the new machine is the only installation required. NCSA telnet, both versions, emulate the vt102 and tek 4013 terminal. A version is available from Clarkson which emulates an IBM terminal but this version hasn't been used here. --==-- Hubert Daugherty Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hd@rice.edu Rice University (713) 527-4035 Houston, TX 77252 --==-- Hubert Daugherty Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hd@rice.edu Rice University (713) 527-4035 Houston, TX 77252