zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) (07/15/88)
In article <387@comdesign.UUCP> pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes: >Pardon my ignorance, but I'm confused about running uucp over TCP links. > >My only guess would be for folks running TCP terminal servers hooked into >dial-in/dial-out modems .. the remote site dials into the modem, goes via >tcp to the host, and runs uucp as if the modem was direct-connected to >the host. I've been doing this over a annex box using rlogin. The big problem seems to be that something (rlogin?) doesn't provide a 8 bit path so I have to use the uucp 'f' protocol. Since I'm coming in on a non error free modem and 'f' uses a block size of the whole file, this really isn't ideal (although it usually works ok). Does anyone have any suggestions? More info on what I want to do: Given that I have modems and uucp and no tcp/ip connections (or software), I want to send mail to a host that has tcp/ip connections but no modems or serial ports. There is a annex terminal server that can provide a modem/rlogin link. This seems like a common need for sites with many machines networked together and only a few modems. -- Jon Zeeff Branch Technology, uunet!umix!b-tech!zeeff zeeff%b-tech.uucp@umix.cc.umich.edu
david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) (07/18/88)
In article <4624@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes: >In article <387@comdesign.UUCP> pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes: >>Pardon my ignorance, but I'm confused about running uucp over TCP links. >> >>My only guess would be for folks running TCP terminal servers hooked into >>dial-in/dial-out modems .. the remote site dials into the modem, goes via >>tcp to the host, and runs uucp as if the modem was direct-connected to >>the host. um, it's also great for avoiding phone bills to call rutgers :-) >Given that I have modems and uucp and no tcp/ip connections (or >software), I want to send mail to a host that has tcp/ip connections >but no modems or serial ports. There is a annex terminal server that >can provide a modem/rlogin link. This seems like a common need for sites >with many machines networked together and only a few modems. You could ... 1. cook up a different protocol. Take the g protocol and have it not generate the "evil" characters and have a mapping scheme to allow all the characters to go through. 2. Find a host that's has both UUCP capabilities and TCP/IP connections to the host you want to send mail to. Use this host as a gateway. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy <david@ms.uky.edu> <---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- What is this wet ... *stuff* ....... falling from the sky? <---- It stirs a vague memory of ... *something* ... but of what I do not know.