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>Appendix E. Terminal server configuration</H1
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><DT
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>E.1. <A
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HREF="ts-buy.html"
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>Considerations when buying second-hand terminal
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servers</A
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>E.2. <A
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>Cisco 2511</SPAN
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>Xyplex/iTouch <SPAN
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>MAXserver
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1600</SPAN
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>Xylogics/Bay/Nortel <SPAN
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CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
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>Annex</SPAN
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>Livingston/Lucent <SPAN
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CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
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>Portmaster</SPAN
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>Terminal servers were originally designed for connecting
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terminals to minicomputers. Each terminal would have an
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<SPAN
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>RS-232</SPAN
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> port. The connection to the minicomputer
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usually used an ethernet port. Connecting terminals would be
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connected to a command line interface where they could select from a
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list of predefined machines. A <SPAN
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session would then be started to that machine.</P
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>Over time terminal servers gained more features. For example,
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modems could be connected. These initially allowed people to dial
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in to the minicomputer but grew in features until most terminal
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servers became routers with a great number of serial ports.</P
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>As well as allowing the connection of many console to a single
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terminal, the terminal server can be configured with user accounts
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and passwords, preventing unauthenticated access to the console
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whilst still allowing the console to be reached from any
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modem.</P
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>This remainder of this section lists the considerations when
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purchasing terminal servers and the cabling pinouts and basic
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software configuration needed for differing types of terminal
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servers.</P
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>Further contributions are welcome and should be e-mailed to
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the maintainer of this <I
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<SPAN
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> from a serial
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console</TD
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