templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon) (11/18/90)
Hello, I have the problem of trying to use SLIP in an 'unsupported' environment. The specific SLIP speaker is an AT&T 3b1 running the ka9q package, and the network to which I'd like to connect is an ethernet full of machines running various flavors of tcp/ip. Purchasing some sort of bridge is not an option unless it is VERY inexpensive. Someone suggested that there might be some way to have a program running on one of the ethernet-connected computers which captured the incoming SLIP stuff from the serial (terminal) line and spewed it out onto the ethernet. It seems someone must have done this before or something similar. Any help or suggestions? I don't have the time to write the program myself (nor, probably the expertise.) The machines which would be available to host such a thing would be either VMS machines or unix machines. Please reply to templon@copper.ucs.indiana.edu People wanting a summary are also welcome to reply. Jeff