arul@sdsu.UUCP (Arul Ananthanarayanan) (02/13/89)
I am interested in any work that has been done or is in progress with regard to dialin slip. We have the SLIP code builtin to our 4.3 machine so I would be interested if anyone has done anywork along the lines of having personal computers dial up and request an address dynamically on connection. Could anyone point me in the proper direction? Thanks, Arul -- San Diego State University Math Sciences Dept. Celerity 1230 BSD 4.3 UUCP: ....!ucsd!sdsu!arul work:(619) 594-7208 ARPA: arul%sdsu.uucp@ucsd.edu home:(619) 583-0439
craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (02/13/89)
Arul:
This seems to be the hot topic of the moment.
For a reference, see
L. Lanzillo, C. Partridge, "Implementation of Dial-up IP for UNIX Systems,"
Proc. 1989 Winter USENIX Technical Conf., San Diego, California,
January 30 - February 3, 1989.
ABSTRACT: CSNET has developed a software package to support the sending
of Internet Protocol (IP) datagrams over dial-up phone lines. This driver
can automatically establish and disconnect phone calls as IP traffic
dictates. This code works in binary-only BSD systems.
People who don't have easy access to a USENIX proceedings can drop me a
note and I'll e-mail you a postscript copy. (By the way, this conference was
a good one -- see, for example, Tom Duff's paper on the virus he let loose
at AT&T).
The software described in this paper is available only to CSNET members.
Conversations I had with folks in the hall led me to believe that several
prominent people were also working on dial-up packages and we might see
more offerings in the near future.
By the way, there's apparent concensus among all involved that we'd like
our dial-up systems to interoperate. The key problem may be using
a standard serial line protocol. Implementors are getting ahead of
the Point-To-Point Working Group (not what was intended when the P2P
group was established) and once software is distributed it is hard to
upgrade.
Craig