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Re: terminal server recommendation
From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 07:43:37 -0400
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:12:34PM -0000, Charles Smith wrote:
I would like to deploy a terminal server in several of my POPs, however cost is a slight issue. Can anyone on the list recommend a fairly inexpensive terminal server (besides Cisco)? Obviously the terminal server should be reliable and work - it is the little things that count.
Here are the average uptimes of the three types of terminal server we had back in the day when I ran a small ISP. Computone Powerrack: 2 weeks. (It will go considerably longer if you waste one of the ports as a serial console, we had modems on all ports and that caused it to fill it's buffer and crash periodically, Computone probably sent us two dozen revisions of the firmware before they solved that problem.) BSD/OS 2.0.1 on IBM PC Server: 1 month. (Would crash about every 7 or 8 weeks, so we rebooted it once a month whether it needed it or not.) RedHat Linux 4.1 homebuilt: 6 months. (Would have been longer, but there was a power outage that lasted longer than the UPS, and then about 5 months later they took it out of service and replaced with a Computone.) If price is really an object, build your own. If reliability is an object, you get what you pay for.
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