Larry,

Why not put telnet terminal servers at the remote site to handle serial
communications? This eliminates DTCs and bridging altogether. Printing could
be handled over the network as well.

Doug.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Simonsen, Larry <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 3:05 PM
Subject: dtc and WAN


>I know this must have been asked before so here goes again.
>
>I have a site that is on our Corporate WAN which needs to connect a
>serial device (modem) to the 3000.  We thought DTC is the answer but I'm
>told I must turn on bridging to get the configuration to download.
>Since we are not in control of the corporate network and bridging would
>increase the traffic, we would like to find another alternative to
>supporting serial devices across the WAN.  Any suggestions would be
>welcomed.
>