On Thu, 2 Nov 1995, Jonathan Sturges wrote:

> Sorry to send this here, but I think this list has been confirmed to be 
> the single highest concentration of DEC gurus on the net, right?  :-)
> 
> I've come across some DECserver 200/MC's, being sold cheap.
> I think they boot only with MOP, right?  What other 
> features/problems/limitations do these things have?

The two biggest problems with it is MOP and LAT. I have written a MOP
loader (to be soon released after NetBSD 1.1) so loading the terminal server
from a Unix machine is possible (if you havethe terminal server software).

LAT is a bigger problem. To my knowledge there is no public specification
of the protocol. So if you don't have a machine running VMS, Ultrix or
DEC Unix you are out of luck.

> Also,  what is the highest port 
> speed supported, and does it support either SLIP and/or PPP?
> 
Sorry, just LAT and port speed 19200 if I remeber correct.

> If I can use them, they're going for US$25, and they've got 8 ports...
> pretty cheap for a term server.
> 
Some friends of mine had plans for using the DSV200 as a router. But I think
the project died due to lack of information of the hardware.

> also, is there a place on the net I can find good DEC hardware info?
> thanks!!
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> 

-moj

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