OK, here is how I'd try doing it. First, do you have a DSL Line? That would be best, since as I understand it Cable companies don't like such traffic on their lines. Then have a somewhere between a Sparc 2 to 20, and a couple Aurora 16-port serial cards. Cable the cards on the Aurora breakout boxes to the ports on the /44. For the Sparc you can run something like the following software packages: http://www.conserver.com/ http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~doug/console.html You'd probably want to write some kind of wrapper, and setup a generic account on the Sparc. Users log into the Sparc, it executes the wrapper automatically, which figures out which console port to use for their session. The hardest part of this would be getting users to disconnect correctly. You'd probably need to figure out a way to disconnect sessins that have been inactive for to long. As an alternative, you could try to find a console server that supports reverse telnet (is there such a beast, I know there are ones for reverse LAT). What OS are you planning on running on the /44? In the event that you're running RT-11, you can get a free TCP stack and just connect the system directly to your network. Zane