micky@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Micky Liu) (03/10/89)
I am attempting to install SLIP on my Sun-3/140 running SunOS 3.5. The
sources for SLIP that I have are from my PC-NFS V3.0 distribution. I've
connected an IBM PS/2-50 running DOS 3.3 to the serial port... I've tried
to follow all of the directions as closely as possible, and after a bit of
futzing have actually gotten some of the things to work. Now for some
questions:
1) Is there a way to get better performance from this setup? I am
running at 9600 and the telnet performance has much to be desired.
If I ran a simple terminal at that speed it would be much faster.
Of course this is due to all of the overhead involved with SLIP,
what I need to know is why there is the 9600 limit?
2) I can succesfully use telnet, rcp, and rpcinfo... But ftp does
not transfer files (not even small ones). I can make the
connection, but then it hangs.
3) Of course, you are wondering why I am going through all of this
grief... After I get this part to work, I need to get my PS/2
to function as a router, to extend my ethernet over a very long
distance over twisted-pairs... Any hints as to software that can
do something like that?
4) All of the time that I was doing this, I was wondering if I was
missing some major piece of documentation... Is there some Sun
Doc that describes how to install SLIP (other than the blurb in
the PC-NFS doc)?
Thanx,
Micky Liu
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