Need recommendations on a terminal server setup

[Johnny Billquist]

Wolfe, Julian wrote:
> Alright,
> 
> I'm getting ready to make my 11/23+ available online for people to play
> with, but I'm a bit stumped as far as how I should attach the serial
> lines to my Ethernet network.

Fun. What exactly do you have on the 11/23?
Only serial lines, or do you have ethernet as well?

> Now, I have a Sun server running Solaris 10 which I was able to connect
> a couple serial lines to and then tunneled that through a telnet port,
> but I'd rather not do that...with the setup I'm thinking of, we're
> talking about a whole lot of cable running into that box.

That is one very common way of doing it.

> Does anyone here have suggestions on what I should use for a terminal
> server?  If I could just mount a DECserver box in my PDP-11 chassis that
> would be great, but isn't the Ethernet port DECnet-only?

The ethernet port is ethernet only. :-)
However, the terminal server might be LAT only, in which case you'll 
have some problems, since I assume you want people to be able to telnet 
to the box from outside, so you really need something that speak tcp/ip 
and telnet.

	Johnny

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