From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 29 19:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [209.210.251.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831F237B424 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calweb.com (gatekeeper.calweb.com [209.210.251.61]) by mail.calweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA47609; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39AC7358.C6256115@calweb.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:37:12 -0700 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" Organization: Calweb Internet Services Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: isp@freebsd.org Cc: michael.elbel@consol.de Subject: Re: Terminal Server recommendations? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don't the 300's have to do a MOP load of the firmware? I don't remember that those have a flash card or ROM. Doing MOP might be difficult in a none DEC shop. Or is there something obvious that I'm missing. "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Michael Elbel wrote: > > I don't want to buy something that is more expensive than a slim line > > PC with a multi serial card though. What I've come up so far with > > would cost $2500 to $3000 for 16 ports which frankly is out of my > > reach. > > *smirk* > > And here I was thinking I got a great deal on $25 Emulex P4000s and $8 > DECserver 300s. > > Buy whatever you can afford. Cisco 2511s work well but are pretty > expensive. I dunno if I'd consider a Portmaster as others have suggested > but they would probably work fine, except for their large size. You > should be able to score a DECserver 300 or better (not a 100 or a 200 mind > you, as they are LAT only.) on eBay for less than $50. > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | > | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message