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Ameet Chaubal -- Mon, 3 Aug 1998 22:51:02 +0200 (METDST)

Hi all

Is there a Chat Room software for Solaris

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Ameet Chaubal

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Simoes <dans@ans.net>
To: sun-managers <sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu>
Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 2:12 PM
Subject: SUMMARY: Farallon Netopia


>My original question:
>
>>I'm curious to see if any has experience using an external
>>Farallon Netopia ISDN modem/router with a Sun machine.
>>I can't see why this wouldn't work, but just in case...
>>In particular, I'm looking to do DOV (data over voice)
>>with this device.
>
>Replies are below.  Short answer is, yes, it should work.
>
>In doing some further research, it appears that what I want
>is a ISDN "router" which may or not have a builtin hub.
>There is a pretty good review of these on CNET's web site.
>It appears that most of these do data over voice.
>
>I haven't decided what to use yet, but the Zyxel Prestige 100
>3Com OfficeConnect are top contenders.
>
>Thanks for the replies.
>
>| Dan |
>
>---
>
>We've used the Netopia for both ISDN and Frame Relay and it works well.
>
>We noticed that our telnet performance improved dramatically when we moved
away
>from PPP over modems to connect to our ISP. The packets seemed to be
buffered so
>that when you typed on a telnet terminal session nothing appeared on the
screen
>for a few seconds, and thenthe whole line would appear. That made telnet
almost
>useless.
>
>When we got a data line we found that telnet was much better behaved. This
may
>have been because of our ISP's setup, but it bodes well for what you are
doing.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>--
>From: Rick Fincher <rnf@spitfire.tbird.com>
>
>We are using a 660 with Frame Relay now. Whe have Sparc 2, 10, 670MP, and
>Macintosh machines on our net that use it, We have run Solaris 2.5 and 2.6
with
>it with no problems.
>
>--
>I don't know about DOV, but I use a Netopia 655 in my network
>(has a Sun running Solaris 2.5.1 and a PC running Windows NT
>4.0) and it works just fine! Both the Sun and PC can access
>the Internet via my my ISP. I use Netscape and ftp and telnet
>typically.
>
>I currently set the Netopia for using both channels for data,
>so I do not know what happens if you have a voice connection
>and try a data connection from the Sun. But I have tried the
>dynamic 2B setup option (drops 1 B channel in low use times
>and adds it in dynamically as needed) and it works correctly,
>so I'd guess what you have in mind should work.
>
>--
>We have a Netopia doing T1 ... it works great, is reliable, has a good
>(simple) interface, keeps some statistics, we can log into it over the
>network (or not if we want to disable it).  We had some initial line
>problems which caused it to drop the line, but that wasn't the fault
>of the Netopia. If we had had more experience the error messages it
>put out would have let us diagnose the problem right away.
>
>Just a sample of one though ;-)
>
>--
>I have a handful of Netopia in the field, supporting hi-end telecommuters
>and small offices.  When I tested it, data over voice
>worked fine; however, since then I have only implemented bonded (MP) 64K
>data channels, so I don't have any operational experience with DOV.
>
>I use the PN 655/455, e.g. the ethernet/ISDN routers.
>
>None of my users have Unix boxes at home, purely desktop machines
>(Win95/NT/Mac OS).  However, there are of course no Unix-specific issues
>around the use of ISDN -- it is just a pipe for TCP-IP (and IPX and
>AppleTalk, in my configuration).
>
>I like the Netopia product.  The software has proved utterly reliable for
>me -- I've been using their software since 1.something (now on 3.3).  The
>telnet interface is fine, not fancy, but fine.  The box supports saving
>and retrieving its config file to a tftp server -- this is a quality
>feature.  It supports the use of its two POTS ports in all the usual ways.
>It contains a slot for a PCMCIA modem for remote console access (not as an
>alternate data path) -- this is important when supporting telecommuters
>and remote offices -- saves me the road trip of visiting.  For $250, you
>get the PCMCIA modem plus a year of next day hardware replacement and tech
>support -- great deal.
>