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- From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
- Subject: Re: Communication Servers - Anyone have any info?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.083245.5305@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <93019.153551RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:32:45 GMT
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- In article <93019.153551RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> Thomas J Cozzolino <RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com> writes:
- >We've been reading about "Communications or Access Servers" - smart terminal
- >servers that allow dynamic assignment of IP addresses to available ports.
- >
- >Here's what would be ideal:
- > run X-Windows from a PC at home
- > dial into the the Comm/Access server
- > be assigned to an available port (with some sort of authentication)
- > access my network hosts (X, terminal sessions, Internet, etc.)
- >
- >Does this type of access *presently* exist?
- >What vendors provide such Communication servers?
- >What X-Windows products support this? (I hear that NCD's PC-Xremote only
- > supports Cisco terminal servers - would this fit the bill?)
-
- Any dial router that supports PPP should work. Candidates are
- Telebit's Netblazer, NEC's Dr. Bond, Centrum's remote access server,
- and various terminal servers such as ones from Datability, Xyplex, Livingston.
-
- The PC-XRemote package has the advantage of utilizing a proprietary
- X-Window packet compression algorithm which squeezes more bandwidth
- from the serial line and thus produces higher screen drawing rates.
- I don't know which servers it is compatible with. Cisco's comm server
- does support PPP and thus does do the dynamic address assignment you
- are looking for.
-
- Hope this helps.
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