Paul Suhler (suhler@IBM.COM) (01/10/90)
Has anyone heard of a SLIP (serial line IP) implementation for the Mac? Phil Karn & Bdale Garbee have an ethernet-to-serial-line bridge program, but I just want a back end to use with a terminal emulator. I've been told that MacTCP (from Apple) will NOT talk to SLIP. Does anyone have information to the contrary? Thanks, Paul Suhler Hybrid Dataflow Systems (914) 789-7490
urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de (01/14/90)
In comp.sys.mac SUHLER@IBM.COM writes:
< Has anyone heard of a SLIP (serial line IP) implementation for the Mac?
< [...]. I've been
< told that MacTCP (from Apple) will NOT talk to SLIP. Does anyone have
< information to the contrary?
<
Well, not yet...
I have heard a rumor that someone or other at MIT is writing a SLIP driver for
MacTCP. Will whoever knows anything about this please step forward?
Thank you.
I have looked at MacTCP with ResEdit a bit, and it looks like that, given
proper documentation which I don't have, it should be possible to write your
own link-access interface and paste it into MacTCP. Given this, the major
problem would be some semi-intelligent scripting (i.e., you are going to have
to configure your modem, dial the number, log into the terminal server, set
its parameters, log into your host, fool around with stty if your host's
slattach is as dumb as they come, start the SLIP on the host, and pray).
< Thanks,
Same. (There are people out there who need SLIP!)
NB: Many people are somewhat reluctant to start serious work on SLIP at this
time because SLIP isn't a standard, it's a non-standard. A RFC-ized protocol,
called PPP (point-to-point protocol, if I remember correctly) is currently
being developed but not yet finalized. I think. Ask your local RFC index
and/or archive for details.
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Matthias Urlichs