Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rice!bcm!watson!sob From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: Terminal servers over ethernet? Message-ID: <1152@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 9 Jul 88 00:32:07 GMT References: <320@ucrmath.UUCP><3960@saturn.ucsc.edu> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Reply-To: sob@watson.UUCP (Stan Barber) Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article <3960@saturn.ucsc.edu> eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner) writes: >My biggest complaint with the Bridge terminal server is that it >cannot be configured to time out a terminal that has been inactive >for longer than some threshold. Like Ron, I found that the box >is very reliable. > >jim warner >Univ of California, Santa Cruz The 3-com Communications Servers will timeout a user when configured as a HOST port after a certain period of inactivity. It should be possible to add such an ability to the server since the code is there for the host side. Hopefully, 3com is reading this and will think about doing it for release 20010 [by Arthur C. Clarke?]. Stan internet: sob@tmc.edu Baylor College of Medicine Olan uucp: {rice,killer,hoptoad}!academ!sob Barber Opinions expressed are only mine.