Need recommendations on a terminal server setup

[Patrick Finnegan]

Dan Williams declared on Friday 18 November 2005 20:40:
> > >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?
> >
> > Remember that Digital, Intel and Xerox invented Ethernet back in the
> > 70s, DIX Ethernet as it was called back then. There's no such thing
> > as a DECnet only port that I've come across so far.....caveat emptor
> > etc....
>
> I think the earlier ones are LAT only. I know there is a version of
> LAT for Linux but I have never tried it.

There's a DECnet package, which supports LAT and MOP, for Linux and (at 
least) NetBSD.  I've used it on Debian Linux, and it works quite well, 
except for a bug that pops up when MOP booting a DECserver 500/550 off 
of it.  I need to get around to submitting a patch sometime...

My suggestion is to use either a DECserver, or a Xyplex MAXserver 
1500/16xx.  The Xyplexes seem to have come down in price quite 
significantly on ebay, and are based on the DECservers (Xyplex, now MRV, 
ended up with the DECserver stuff when DEC sold it off).

If you need boot firmware for the Xyplex though, ask someone on the 
list... trying to get it out of MRV will make you want to shoot them. :)

Pat
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