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Morning Star Technologies

We make wide-area communications products for low-cost Internet connectivity, branch office LAN integration, and telecommuting applications. Our SecureConnect firewalls feature the most secure traffic control in the business - here's why dynamic packet filtering is so different. Read the Dynamic Filter User Guide, which is available in PostScript (2,665,399 bytes), also compressed (400,788 bytes) and GnuZipped (261,522 bytes). Also see our new suite of network authentication tools, including the Morning Star Authentication Server!

Our widely-respected PPP/SLIP software runs on most popular UNIX systems, connecting hosts and IP networks over links ranging in cost and performance from dial-up async modems through dedicated T1/E1 synchronous leased lines. Our Express router line is the lowest-cost T1/E1-capable router in the market, and includes the features of our UNIX PPP software, plus optional Frame Relay connectivity, but in a compact dedicated router package.

Our Internet connectivity products provide all-important security features, such as a robust firewall packet filter (keeps prying eyes off your LAN), link peer authentication (verify the identity of the host on the other end of the wire), selective gateway encryption (ensures the privacy of all communications that traverse the Internet between your LAN and your branch offices and business partners), and other useful tools.

Our advice concerning CERT CA-95:01

Our advice concerning SATAN (also here and here and here, documentation here, see also Gabriel)

Find information about these products:

  • Morning Star SecureConnect
    Includes security technology described the Dynamic Filter User Guide, which is available in PostScript (2,665,399 bytes), also compressed (400,788 bytes) and GnuZipped (261,522 bytes).
  • Morning Star Authentication Server
  • Morning Star PPP
  • Morning Star Express Router Family, including the Express, the Express Office, and the Express Plus.
  • Morning Star SnapLink
  • Morning Star X.25
  • Morning Star Express Link 56 CSU/DSU

    • Or see the overall

  • Price List

    • Read this local material:

  • A basic treatise on SLIP, PPP, and what they're good for. This was presented at the 1991 Sun User Group conference in San Jose. You can also get it in PostScript form, along with the slides.
  • A White Paper executive summary version of the SUG talk
  • A performance comparison of SLIP and PPP
  • A discussion of PEP and V.32bis
  • A discussion of interactive priority queueing
  • A discussion of the constraints in building a big dialup server from a UNIX system running MST PPP
  • A discussion of using MST PPP in a BOOTP or DHCP environment
  • A listing of which V.35 and RS-232 pins the Express Router uses
  • Steve Bellovin's Virtual Networks Paper from the Winter 1990 (Washington) Usenix conference
  • The slides used in the Dialup IP panel discussion at Interop 93 Spring in Washington DC
  • The slides used in our Security presentation at Interop 93 August in San Francisco.

    • Discussion Archives

  • The MST PPP-Users mailing list is available as a searchable WAIS index, or you can get the whole archive.
  • The MST Express-Users mailing list is available as a searchable WAIS index, or you can get the whole archive.
  • The MST X25-Users mailing list is available as a searchable WAIS index, or you can get the whole archive.
  • A combined WAIS index of the users' mailing lists for all our products is available as a searchable WAIS index

    • Other useful information sources:

  • A list of qualified consultants to help you build your network.
  • A collection of RFCs related to our products
  • A WAIS-searchable index of these WWW Documents
  • The Usenet newsgroup comp.protocols.ppp Frequently Asked Questions list
  • The Firewalls@GreatCircle.Com mailing list Archive and Frequently Asked Questions
  • NIST's Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse, including their Introduction to Internet Firewalls
  • InterNIC resources

    • Reach us at:

    Morning Star Technologies Inc.
    3518 Riverside Dr, Suite 101
    Columbus OH USA 43221-1754
    +1 614 451 1883 (voice)
    +1 800 558 7827 (voice)
    +1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
    Marketing@MorningStar.Com (sales e-mail)
    Support@MorningStar.Com (technical e-mail)
    ftp.MorningStar.Com:pub/ (anonymous FTP)
    http://www.MorningStar.Com (WWW)

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