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Date: 	Mon, 30 Oct 1995 14:23:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Charles Tassell <ctassell@isn.net>
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Subject: Re: Portmaster/Terminal Server
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On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Charles Tassell wrote:

>   Has anyone out there used FreeBSD as a PortMaster or Terminal Server (I
> honestly don't know the difference between the two myself...)  I'd like to set
> something up that can detect a class of user and send them to one of two
> machines depending on the class.

  Portmaster refers to a particular brand of terminal server made by 
Livingston.

  They can handle SLIP, PPP, rlogin, telnet users.  They will likely 
outperform any PC-based terminal server (able to run PPP on all 30 ports at 
115,200 baud simultaneously).  

Tom