merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) (05/10/87)
In article <16608@amdcad.AMD.COM>, bandy@amdcad.AMD.COM (Andy Beals) writes: > I don't know about you, but the last time I dialed-up a > computer, I got line-noise. Interactive smtp is nice but you > need to have an error-free datastream between them. So, anyone > for writing a point-to-point dialup tcp/ip? This discussion seems headed to the general possibility of doing TCP/IP over a dialup phone line, so I'm moving it to comp.protocols.tcp. Ideally, we'd like to be able to write a daemon that can listen for non-local IP requests, check against a list of dial-up machines and their addresses, dial the phone, and then act as a pass-through. All this should be done without any kernel modifications. I don't know if this can be done with current 4.x BSD kernels. Used to be that all BSD sites had source, but with the rise of the workstation vendors, that's not true anymore. Perhaps raw sockets would provide a means to do this, but it's been quite a while since I did anything with raw sockets. Anyone else have any ideas? -- David S. Hayes, The Merlin of Avalon PhoneNet: (202) 694-6900 UUCP: *!seismo!sundc!hqda-ai!merlin ARPA: merlin%hqda-ai.uucp@brl.arpa