Terminal Servers [was: Putting PDP11/44 on the net]

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Wed Nov 13 12:25:01 2002

David Woyciesjes <dwoyciesjes_at_comcast.net> wrote:
> Speaking of terminal servers, I picked up a pair of Datability Vista
> VCP-1000 terminal servers when my (old) work were going to just toss
> them out. Anybody have any experience with these?

Where I used to work, I took to calling ours the "Disability".
It earned the name.

LAT: pretty good
TCP/IP: would sometimes lose its configuration
SLIP/PPP: usable, if you're willing to give all your users
          the "enable" password (we weren't)

At least that was my experience with one of them around 1992-1993.
Rumor was that there was a later firmware revision that addressed
some of the TCP/IP and PPP problems but it never made its way into
our units. The unit that was used primarily to hook a bunch of
terminals to a smaller bunch of VMS hosts with LAT just worked,
the one that we expected to do TCP/IP stuff was a real pain.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Wed Nov 13 2002 - 12:25:01 GMT