I have a Shiva LanRover with four phone lines and it has performed
flawlessly for about a year and one half now. It listed, at that time for
about $2900 but the educational price was around $2000.
It supports ARA, slip, PPP, IPX and, of course, TCP/IP. It comes with all
of these built into it. It is administered remotely by using GUI software
for either the Mac or PC, and also has traditional UNIX command line
ability. It is configurable in a number of ways and is really a small
router.
We have recently purchased a terminal server from CISCO that is more
expensive but handles more phone lines...and appears to be more flexible
but I haven't had a chance to use it yet so I can't make any comparisons.
I'm sorry that I don't have the information on Shiva here at home...it's
spring break and that information is at school..but if you have any of the
catalogs such as MacWarehouse it will have that information. Being in the
Far East that may be a problem tho'. I don't know their WWW address but try
www.shiva.com and see if anything happens.
Good luck
George Scott
gscott@mail.central.stpaul.k12.mn.us
Communications Technology Program 612-659-0819
Central Sr. High--St. Paul, MN
http://voyager.central.stpaul.k12.mn.us
Lead Teacher Computer and Informational Technologies
Arlington High School (under construction)
http://voyager.central.stpaul.k12.mn.us/arlington/arlington.html