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- From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,news.answers,comp.answers
- Subject: comp.protocols.ppp part8 of 8 of frequently wanted information
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- Date: 26 Jul 1995 18:24:55 GMT
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- Summary: This document contains information about the Internet Point-to-Point
- Protocol, including a bibliography, a list of public domain and
- commercial software and hardware implementations, a section on
- configuration hints and a list of frequently asked questions and
- answers on them.
- It should be read by anybody interested in connecting to Internet
- via serial lines, and by anybody wanting to post to
- comp.protocols.ppp (before he/she does it!)
- Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.protocols.ppp:11714 news.answers:49343 comp.answers:13321
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- Archive-name: ppp-faq/part8
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- Last-modified: $Date: 95/07/24 20:10:12 $
- URL: http://cs.uni-bonn.de/ppp/part8.html
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- 8. PPP HARDWARE
-
- Before even thinking of reading this document, refer to the disclaimer
- in part 1 of the "frequently asked questions".
-
- 8.1 Hardware that does async PPP
-
- [Started by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) and heavily edited, to
- include information from the net, by i.s.] This is an INCOMPLETE list
- of hardware that supports async PPP, in the form of a terminal server or
- terminal server / router combination.
-
- 8.1.1 DECSERVER
-
- Vendor Digital Equipment Corporation
- Phone: +1-800-DIGITAL (+1-800-344-4825)
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION Date: Wed, 07 Sep 94 13:06:19 EDT From:
- Jesse Walker
-
- Digital Equipment Corporation's DECserver family of Network Access
- Servers support IP, IPX, and AppleTalk over PPP,
- with interoperability demonstrated with all the
- commonly available client implementations for
- all three protocols. The DECserver family
- includes the DECserver 90M, 90TL, 700, and 900TM.
- The 90M and 90TL are 8 asynch line servers,
- supporting speeds up 57.6 Kbps. The 700 comes in
- two models: an 8 asynch line version using DB25
- connectors that support full modem control, and
- a 16 asynch line model. The 900 is a 32 asynch
- line server. The 700 and 900 class machines
- support speeds up to 115.2 Kbps. All work well
- with any Hayes compatible modem. All except the
- 90TL have a FLASH RAM option, or can be loaded
- either via BOOTP or MOP.
-
- For more information about DECserver Network Access Server, contact the
- Digital Technical Consulting Center at
- 1-800-DIGITAL (1-800-344-4825) and press "1" to
- order or "2" to speak with a technical consultant.
-
- 8.1.2 TELEBIT NETBLAZER
-
- Telebit Phone: +1 800 TELEBIT
- ftp information from ftp.telebit.com
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:57:58 PDT From:
- Mark.S.Lewis@Telebit.com
-
- The NetBlazer supports 24 async lines. An individual line can be run
- at 115.2Kbps. A benchmark by LANQUEST showed the
- NetBlazer could run PPP on 24 async lines at
- 38.4Kbps. I don't know of any customers who run
- exclusively PPP on 24 lines, but I know of several
- that run mixtures of SLIP and PPP on 24 lines.
-
- OPINION: From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- A NetBlazer works flawlessly for remote site PPP/SLIP links. As a term
- server it doesn't fit the bill. And a bit
- costly.
-
- 8.1.4 LIVINGSTON PORTMASTER PM-11
-
- Vendor Livingston Enterprises, Inc: +1 510 426 0770
- ftp information from
- gator.netcom.com:/pub/livingston/
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION ... have 10-, 20- and 30-port configurations.
- List prices ranging from ~US$2.7K to ~US$3.8K.
- Contact for more information.
-
- 8.1.5 XYLOGICS MICROANNEX XL AND ANNEX 3
-
-
- - Xylogics MicroAnnex XL (8-16 ports - release 9.2 firmware)
- - Xylogics Annex 3 (8-64 ports - release 9.2 firmware)
- (up to 57600 bps)
- - Xylogics Remote Annex 2000 (8 or 16 ports, 486-class processor)
- - Xylogics Remote Annex 4000 (16 to 72 ports, 2 or 3 486's)
- (up to 115200 bps)
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION From: carlson@xylogics.com (James Carlson)
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 14:28:40 EDT
-
- Current version has IPCP and PAP. We don't have a sync PPP version
- yet, mostly because we don't support sync serial
- yet. That is scheduled for the R9.3 release,
- along with ATCP, IPXCP and CHAP.
-
- We have had async PPP since our R7.0 release in October 1992 for our
- Annex 3 and Micro Annex XL platforms. PPP is not
- supported on the (now obsolete) Annex 2 nor on
- the Micro Annex ELS.
-
- The Annex 3 can be customer-upgraded from 8 to 64 async serial lines,
- with full modem controls on each line, and two to
- three i376 processors. (The i376 is an embedded
- version of the 80386 which does not have an
- MMU.) The motherboard has one i376 and each
- serial card (maximum two) has one. Packet
- routing and user-level functions are handled on
- the motherboard, while framing and PPP/SLIP
- link-level processing are done on the serial
- cards.
-
- The Remote Annex has the same architecture, but with a TI486SLC2
- processor instead of the 80376. It's about
- twice the speed.
-
- OPINION From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- I have been *VERY* happy with my Xylogics terminal servers I have to
- Annex II's and a Annex 3. They were designed
- for the Unix type person, and take 2 mins to get
- working on the network. Port configuration will
- take longer, but normally you only have a few
- sets of configurations "modem dialin high speed"
- etc. Two thumbs up to this company, now if they
- didn't cost so much. :) :)
-
- 8.1.6 DATABILITY VCP 200/300 ( ??? )
-
- Opinion From: bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith)
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 92 23:35:18 GMT
-
- I tested one of these, they come in 8-16 port configurations, a TCP or
- LAT or TCP/LAT version. Very VMS like, I would
- guess a off spring of DECservers. Cheaper than
- the Xylogics in Price. Didn't fit my feel due to
- the VMSish help and commands.
-
- 8.1.7 3COM CS/2100 (10 LINES MAX)
-
- [Was mentioned in a posting of Peter Galbavy, summarizing suggestions
- other ppl. made to him about ppp-capable terminal servers. i.s.]
-
- 8.1.8 COMPUTONE INTELLISERVER
-
- Self-Description "The IntelliServer is a high-performance,
- expandable, TCP/IP terminal server that supports
- slip/cslip/ppp.
-
-
-
- Some features include -
- High performance MIPS R3000 RISC processor at 20 mips.
- Expandable from 16 to 64 serial ports.
- Baud rates up 115.2K baud.
- Full modem control.
- LCD panel with diagnostics and monitoring features.
- Supports Unix syslog facility.
- Shell and menu interface.
- Up to 8 virtual terminals per serial port.
- Several options to support printers.
- Network loadable kernels with bootp, tftp.
- Demand dial ppp and slip.
- Firewall support using ip filtering.
- Ports can be shared between logins and ppp/slip.
- Remote administration using telnet.
- Some commands - whodo, ps, route, tip, netstat, arp,
- ping, rlogin, telnet, route, etc...
-
- EMAIL sales@computone.com, support@computone.com
-
- Phone +1 404 475 2725
-
- FAX sales +1 404 664 1510, support +1 404 664 1110
-
- ftp server ftp.computone.com
-
- WWW server http://www.computome.com
-
- 8.2 Hardware that supports sync PPP
-
-
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Original-From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti), but heavily edited by i.s.
-
- Note that sync PPP is rather well established and it's not surprising
- to see lots of vendors using it as their only sync serial line
- protocol. Various folks do various of the configuration options,
- anywhere from a full implementation to very bare bones.
-
- The price point is arbitrary. These are list prices for the cheapest
- box that has at least 1 sync PPP port that runs at 56 kb/sec plus one
- ethernet. Prices approximate, your milage may vary, contact your
- vendor for details.
-
- - Cisco
- E-mail: sales@cisco.com
-
- - Telebit Netblazer
- Phone: +1 800 TELEBIT
- E-mail: ...@telebit.com
-
- NS2-1ESN + SYN35 two EIA-232 SYNC ports and two V.35 sync ports
-
- NB40 + 2 * SYN232 + SYN35 + SYN530 + SYN449 total of 10 sync ports
- (4 EIA-232, 2 V.35 ports, 2 EIA-530 ports, 2 EIA-422/449)
-
- SELF-DESCRIPTION
-
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 93 23:55:49 -0700
- From: cslater@mondavi.sunnyvale.telebit.com (Charlie Slater)
-
- As of this February (93), the NetBlazer/40 supports up to 10 sync ports.
- All can be run at 128Kbps and several can be run at 2Mbps (I don't have
- any field or independent test data on how many can be run at 2Mbps, but I
- think that the answer is at least 2).
-
- - Livingston
- E-Mail: ...@livingston.com
- IR-4 1 ethernet + 4 56K + 1 RS-232
-
- - Morning Star SNAPlink
- E-Mail: marketing@morningstar.com
- SnapLink SCSI-attached serial interface for Unix systems
- 1 T1 + 2 56K, RS-232 or RS-449
-
- HDLC driver for sun4c ttya and ttyb included with PPP software. Works
- only with SunOS "haven't been able to extract the information from
- Sun that we need to make it work under SunOS 4.1.* or Solaris 2.*.
-
- The HDLC driver works on NeXTs under NeXTStep 2.[12], but because of
- NeXTStep's interrupt structure, we can only get it up to 19200 sync.
-
- It's also available from ftp.morningstar.com:pub/tools/sun-hdlc.tar.Z.
- It started as something from one of Torben Nielsen 's grad students,
- and we're required to pass along any changes we make to it. We hope
- that if someone gets it working under 4.1.*, they'll be nice enough to
- pass their changes along too."
-
-
-
- - Imatek
-
- Vendor: Imatek
- Product: OnRamp DSU-Router
-
- Description: Low-Cost, Ethernet-to-56Kbps Sync, Access Router
- (with DSU/CSU, $1195!)
-
- Base unit includes a 32-character Liquid Crystal Display (LCD),
- a data entry keypad, Twisted Pair (UTP) and DB15 (AUI) Ethernet
- connectors. Front-panel menus configure addresses, routes,
- netmasks, etc. (terminal.)
-
- Sync options include integrated DSU/CSU, V.35, or RS-232.
-
- Dimensions: 9.5" x 7.5" x 4".
-
- Price List
- (includes IP routing software with support for PPP and Frame Relay)
-
- Model Cost
- Router w/ Synchronous RS-232 $995
- Router w/ Synchronous V.35 1195
- Router w/ 56Kbps DSU/CSU 1195
-
- Network Management SW Option
- (RIP, SNMP, Security Filters) 200
-
- Please direct questions to: sales@imatek.com
- 408.244.8864 (Voice or FAX)
-
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- Ignatios Souvatzis
- -
- Solaris 2.1: it's slow, needs 200M of disk space and comes without C compiler,
- which makes it remarkably close to MS-Windows. oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
-