Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.lans:2084 comp.periphs:1335 comp.terminals:986 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!kwe From: kwe@bu-cs.BU.EDU (kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent W. England)) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.periphs,comp.terminals Subject: Re: Terminal Servers? Summary: It depends Message-ID: <26557@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 9 Dec 88 18:36:13 GMT References: <147@iquery.UUCP> Reply-To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England) Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans Organization: Boston Univ. Information Tech. Dept. Lines: 16 In article <147@iquery.UUCP> matt@iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy) writes: >We have about 15 *nix boxes running a variety of flavors (Sys V/BSD/Xenix). >We'd like to have a single terminal in each programmer's office allowing >connections to any one of these machines (without having to run 15 cables from >each office). I've vaguely heard of something called "terminal servers". Is >this what I'm looking for? Anyone have any info on any brand in particular? > It depends. Do you have serial ports on these machines and no Ethernet? If so, you need a port selector or data pbx. Want to yank the serial ports off and use Ethernet? Then get terminal servers. Otherwise, just hardwire everyone to a machine and use the existing unix utilities to connect to other machines. Option three is cheapest, followed by option one.