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From: sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Terminal servers over ethernet?
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Date: 9 Jul 88 00:32:07 GMT
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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
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Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine.