Brian Rogers wrote:
>
> On Tue, 26 May 1998, Adoram Rogel wrote:
>
> > Our small office is being divided into two locations. We have a
> > 100Base-TX network of 10 machines now. I need to put 2-3 in the new
> > location that we'll be in the east coast while the rest of the machines
> > are in the west coast. As a lot of data is running thru our processes,
> > I figured a telnet is the most logical connection type - make the east
> > coast machines telnet into the west coast ones and run their processes
> > there. This will work but it "wastes" the machines in the east coast -
> > they only work as terminals.
>
> I agree that telnet would be the most efficient in this situation. I
> wouldn't worry about the waste. Just give them 386's. ;-)
>
> > Any other possible connection ? what about security ? is NFS thru the
> > internet a possibility ? any other tricks that can work ?
>
> IMHO, NFS over the internet can be dangerous. I would say you run the
> risk of being hacked.
>
> Actually, I don't recommend telnet over the internet. It can be slow and
> unreliable. That's not acceptable for business. I would recommend
> directly connecting the two locations to each other with PPP over ISDN.
But then I pay 24 hours a day of long distance West-East coasts.
At $0.10 a minute, $144 a day, it sounds a little bit too much.
> Even still, I wouldn't recommend NFS. NFS over ISDN would probably still
> be too slow. But telnet should be acceptable. BTW, check out SSH. I
> think the web site would be www.f-secure.com, but I can't remember.
>
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Thanks again, Adoram
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