On 16 Jun 2013, at 23:59, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: When I was a VMS sysadmin, we used a few Emulex terminal servers ("Performance 4000" if memory serves) that were really nice...I don't recall them having to boot from the network, though. I have a few of those here with dead power supplies. I should send them to Cory. ;) -Dave I've got a 48 port cyclades sitting in my flat in London, not even plugged in. It does everything pretty much, even has a built-in PPP/SLIP server in case you want to run your own ISP. Alas, it does not talk LAT, just IP. sampsa