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From: jhupp@gensys.com (Jeff Hupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Livingston Portmaster
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 12:21:37 GMT
Organization: Gensys Technologies
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:


:What's the big deal?  They are terminal servers.  That means they
:take serial input and feed the host tcp/ip packets.  If it is a terminal
:server that does any half decent job, then it should work fine.

	Well, if you don't consider little details like setting up to support
SLIP and PPP customers via the Portmasters, converting the current
user database to the radius server's format, and changing all the
dialup user's IP numbers I guess it is.


-- 
Jeff Hupp
<jhupp@gensys.com>  <http://gensys.com/>