Livingston Portmaster 2e

I used to do quite a bit with Livisington Portmasters. They were used to allow dialup ISPs to function in the early days before modems went direct digital (T1/E1/PRI) by providing serial ports and it could terminate SLIP and PPP. You can also set it to up allow telnet (not ssh) to the unit and each tcp port # would pass thru to the serial port on the unit. So I had a few hooked to all the serial consoles of Sun and SGI boxes. Like a Cyclades. I still have a PM-2E which is the thinner version that needs special breakout cables from 50 or 68 pin scsi connectors to DB25. I have a number of the cables too, could use a home for them -- could bring it to VCF East if interest. Also, a friend recently reverse engineered the password reset function for these so it's possible to reset the password without paying on the other website. -- : Ethan O'Toole