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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Terminal server?
Date: 24 Jan 1995 03:05:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <3g0rjf$9kp@anshar.shadow.net>,
Don Whiteside <dwhite@anshar.shadow.net> wrote:
+>  So what I'd like to do is set up a FreeBSD machine with a 16 port board 
+>to take incoming telnet sessions and direct them out the serial ports. 
+>(The 16 port board is because Boca will sell me one on a sysop plan for 
+>next to nothing. I only expect to use about 8 sessions at a time) This 
+>lets me put my money into a piece of hardware rather than into dead-end 
+>software. FreeBSD because it's what I'm familiar with, but I'd consider 
+>NetBSD if I have to go that way.

This should be trivial to implement with either BSD.

					Jordan