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Cheap networking software recommendations?

Cheap networking software recommendations?

Post by Theodore Okuzu » Thu, 05 Jan 1995 09:20:25



        I just put Slackware linux 2.10 on a computer and now I have a bunch
of pc's on the network I want to connect to it.  Cheaply.

        So what now?  

        I want the one linux box to be like a server, and the other PC's all
have to be running DOS/Windows 3.1.  They're connected on a token ring,
and all I want for now is dumb terminal emulation.  Y'know, like I want
to telnet from the PC's into the linux box.

        Basic network.  The easiest kind - well, except for the token ring
bit.  But where do I start?

        What should I run from linux or the pc's?  
                Microsoft DOS Lan manager?
                NCSA telnet?  
                Samba?  
                Winsock?
        What is Samba anyway?  I can't find a faq on it.  Come to think of it,
I'm not sure which programs I need or what is necessary.  There's got to be
faqs on this stuff, but I can't find any so somebody please point me in the
right direction.  

        But in the mean-time, can someone tell me what's a good thing to run
and how I'm gonna get either or any of the machines to run tcp/ip over a
token ring?

        Thanks for any help.
Ted

 
 
 
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In our lan, we have several switches to divide the network into several
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we don't have any network management software.  All we could do is the
simple unix network monitor tools such as netstat to keep our network
alive and out of trouble.

As our network is growing, we found that we may need some high power network
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field, I would like to seize some recommendation.  

Since most of the switches are cisco switches, is it a better idea to use the
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I know that if we use other company network management software, we may not
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FYI, our switches are quite new.  All of them support snmp and RMON (may not
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Any comment and suggest are appreciated.

Alex Lee

Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

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