Chapter 1

Getting Started

The Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server is a combination of hardware and software that links users at serial devices, such as terminals, to resources on both local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs). These resources include a variety of hosts, workstations, and printers, as well as other SynOptics terminal servers. You can use a terminal server to gain access to any of these hosts on the network:

UNIX hosts that support the TCP/IP protocol

International Business Machines (IBM) hosts that have a Telnet server

DEC VAX hosts running ULTRIX that support TCP/IP

DEC VAX hosts that support the Local Area Transport (LAT) protocol

When a user such as the one shown in Figure 1-1 makes a connection to a LAN host through the terminal server, he can use all the resources on that host as if his terminal were directly attached to it.

Terminal Server Cards In

SynOptics Model 3000

Concentrator

Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN)

UNIX host

VAX host

IBM host

Telnet

Server

F igure 1-1. Using the Model 3395/3395A Terminal Server

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