Suggestions needed on modem-pooling/terminal serving on SysVR2

[Jay Heiser]

I'm shortly going to have 6 unix hosts (running CCI's SysVR2.22, soon
to be SysVR3.?) on an ethernet.  The software does support all of the
Berk. net extensions (rcp, rlogin, etc).  Originally, most of the
hosts had incoming modems, and I have recently added several outgoing
modems.  I'm not currently using uugetty or any other software that
will allow sharing in & outgoing modems (but it shouldn't be hard to
get).

Although I expect the use of modems to increase, our current needs are
light.  Most of the time, none of them are being used.  At least one
host sometimes has 2 in and 1 out going at the same time.  Has anybody
saved any money [time is NOT always money :-) ] by sharing modems
between their unix hosts?  If so, how do you config the hardware.
Someone suggested terminal servers, but they go about $5000 for 8
terms.  How about software (all comm programs are uucp compat; uucp,
cu, pcomm, kermit, etc).

Thanks for your ideas,
-- 
jay heiser
jay at pentagon-ai.army.mil
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