jesper@freja.dk (Jesper L. Lauritsen) (11/03/88)
Hi Netlanders! We are currently installing an Ethernet LAN, and would like to hear about your experience with PC cards and software. We have to select cards and software for a larger number of XT AT and PS/2 DOS based machines. We have the following demands and wishes for cards and software: - Full TCP/IP with ARP etc. - Telnet, Ftp and preferable R-utillities. Capable of several concurrent sessions. - Preferable able to use Domaine Name Server. - Some way to use DOS file and print server. This may be Novell, 3Com, MS-Networks or something alike. (This may be third part software.) - Preferable Netbios interface. - Preferable able to use Xenix file server. - Nice if able to use NFS. - VT100 and 3270 terminal emulation via telnet, and preferable also VT100 via rlogin. (This may be third part software.) Terminal emulator preferable able to run in seperate DESQview or Windows. - Nice if 3279 3G grafik terminal emulation (some way or another - this may be third part software.) - Nice if able to boot PC from the net. - Capable of mapping national 7 bit character sets to PC 8 bit character sets. - Resident part should use little of DOS 640K ram - preferable (much) less than 100K. - High performance. - Low price (this is of course somewhat in contradiction with the demands above - we know that we have to pay to get what we want) Current contenders are Exelan, Ungermann-Bass, 3Com, BICC/Isolan and Bridge. What are your experience with these or any other cards/software? Are our demands and wishes relevant and realistic? We appreciate your help, and will of course summarize to the net. --Jesper ------------ Jesper L. Lauritsen Univ. of Copenhagen, Center for Applied Datology UUCP net: jesper@diku.dk or ..!mcvax!diku!jesper EARN/BITNET: ibtjll@vm.ibt.dk or IBTJLL AT DKIBT