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From: elya@CERF.NET (Elya Kurktchi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: What Terminal Server can be used with FreeBSD?
Date: 11 Aug 1995 19:04:19 -0700
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Larry Snyder (larry@rn.com) wrote:
: In article <40blsr$rf1@ns1.win.net>, Mark Hittinger <bugs@news.win.net> wrote:
: >ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:
: we also have multiple Livingston PortMasters scattered around the office
: each one supporting 30 USR v.34 modems locked at 115200 baud and don't 
: have any problems accessing *ANY* of the machines in the offices, or
: machines out on the net..

I would recommend a Livingston PortMaster for FreeBSD.  We tried an Annex3
terminal server and it is not capable of handling ISP-level service.  A
portmaster appears to be a good choice and as Chris pointed out above, you
can get pretty good performance with a 28.8k modem (roughly 80kbps).
The lack of a graphical interface (because it's freebsd) is a minus, but
it can still be configured manually.

My $0.02/2 cents.

Elya.