Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site adobe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!Glacier!adobe!shore From: shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) Newsgroups: net.lan,net.periphs,net.unix Subject: experience with Bridge Ethertips anyone? Message-ID: <813@adobe.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 14:33:59 EST Article-I.D.: adobe.813 Posted: Fri Nov 8 14:33:59 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 06:33:56 EST Reply-To: shore@adobe.UUCP (Andrew Shore) Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.lan:1141 net.periphs:900 net.unix:6213 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