> On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Ming Lu wrote:
>
> > ->I recommend PM3. They were bought by Lucent which makes them the largest
> > ->Access Server company in the world. They are very good products, and have
> > ->very good tech support and customer service, oeverseas as well as
> > ->domestic. They seem to respond more openly and quickly to customer
> > ->feedback/complaints/demands, etc...
Agreed totally.
> > Speak of experience, livingstone PM3 is cheap, but is is also cheap made.
No it's not.
> > I used them twice (my customers bought them). PM3 only support RIP and
I have PM3's and PM2's and they're spectular.
> > limited OSPF functions, not even VLSM. Tech Support was very lousy too;
WHAT!? It does ALL of OSPF except virtual links. And it sure as heck does
VLSM!
> > one of senior engineer told me that VLSM was not a part of OSPF
> > spec...:-).
No - it's a different spec which Livingston has supported for at least a
year now.
> Besides RIP, OSPF, and BGP, what other protocols do you want in a term
> server?
>
> OSPF on the PM2 and PM3 certainly supports VLSM.
Or even with static routes it does. And I agree - you only need OSPF and
RIP on a term server, hardly even BGP unless it's for routing instead. What
else could one possibly ask for.
-- - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access, Inc. - Gallup and Grants, New Mexico - To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with 'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message.