experience with Bridge Ethertips anyone?
Andrew Shore
shore at adobe.UUCP
Sat Nov 9 05:33:59 AEST 1985
Anyone have any experience with CS/100 Communications
Servers (ethertips) from Bridge Communications Inc.?
We are thinking of getting them and have a few questions. Our
environment is 4.2bsd VAXen and SUNs and a few other odd-balls
on a 3Com Ethernet. Everything we want to talk to with the
Bridge box speaks TCP/IP (telnet).
Any comments on reliability, service, ease of use, horror stories,
etc., would be appreciated.
We have particular questions about:
* terminal type & termcap establishment
* flow control (disabling it for use with Gosling Emacs)
* hanging other peripherals (e.g., Apple LaserWriters)
off of the box and establishing a connection to them
from a host (e.g., VAX running lpd/TranScript).
This requires two-way communication, end-to-end flow
control, plus the ability to flush and ignore the
current state of flow control when necessary
(e.g. TIOCFLUSH & TIOCSTART). Does such a beast
look like a vanilla tty to the VAX, or are there other
things (e.g., new IOCTLs) I have to know about?
Thanks in advance,
--Andy Shore
Adobe Systems Incorporated
{decwrl, glacier, sun, apple}!adobe!shore
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