ferrante@aaec1.UUCP (Rich Ferrante) (09/29/90)
I need to connect a MAC to a UNIX box over a noisy line. Does anyone know of either a SLIP implementation for the MAC or some other error tolerant protocol interface to the serial ports? NCSA telnet won't work, because the MAC will be transmitting the output from a program, not interactions with a user. --- Richard Ferrante Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp. ARPA: ferrante%aaec1.UUCP@dspvax.MIT.EDU 470 Totten Pond Road UUCP: seismo!dspvax!aaec1!ferrante Waltham, MA 02154 (617)890-4200
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (10/02/90)
In article <9009281850.AA27973@aaec.uucp>, ferrante@aaec1.UUCP (Rich Ferrante) writes: > I need to connect a MAC to a UNIX box over a noisy line. Does > anyone know of either a SLIP implementation for the MAC or some other > error tolerant protocol interface to the serial ports? > > NCSA telnet won't work, because the MAC will be transmitting the output > from a program, not interactions with a user. > > --- > Richard Ferrante Well, there is a version of NCSA Telnet which contains an implementation of SLIP from Cisco. Also, there is TCP/Connect II which contains SLIP. What you really need is a SLIP for MacTCP, I don't know of any off hand. Though I do know of some people working on it. You might also want to just look into getting two Telebit modems? They would take care of the errors for you, I believe. Hope that helps. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
D1749@applelink.apple.com (Disini SW, Emmanuel Disini,PRT) (10/04/90)
>I need to connect a MAC to a UNIX box over a noisy line. Does >anyone know of either a SLIP implementation for the MAC or some other >error tolerant protocol interface to the serial ports? There are several uucp implementations available on the Mac. I wouldn't know how robust uucp "g" is under noisy line conditions, but maybe you should just get some MNP or Telebit modems? One such shareware uucp implementation was written by Jim O Dell, and you can contact him at jim@fpr.com. hope this helps, joel disini d1749@applelink.apple.com
bschmidt@bnr.ca (Ben Schmidt) (10/07/90)
In article <2939988@AppleLink.Apple.COM> D1749@applelink.apple.com (Disini SW, Emmanuel Disini,PRT) writes: > >I need to connect a MAC to a UNIX box over a noisy line. Does > >anyone know of either a SLIP implementation for the MAC or some other > >error tolerant protocol interface to the serial ports? > > There are several uucp implementations available on the Mac. I wouldn't know > how robust uucp "g" is under noisy line conditions, but maybe you should just > get some MNP or Telebit modems? > > One such shareware uucp implementation was written by Jim O Dell, and you can > contact him at jim@fpr.com. > > hope this helps, > joel disini > d1749@applelink.apple.com InterCon's TCP/Connect II supports telnet, FTP client and server, NNTP reader, and, I think(?), SMTP sender over SLIP. cisco systems modified NCSA Telnet 2.3 for slip as an unsupported contribution to NCSA. Apple say's next MacTCP version will make it easier to support SLIP, which isn't the same as saying it will allow applications built to sit on top of it to automatically become SLIP supporting. :^) And finally for you HAM radio types, there's a version of KA9Q for the Mac out there (somewhere) :^) which supports SLIP as well. Ben Schmidt Bell-Northern Research, Ltd. Ph: (613) 763-3906 Information Technology P.O. Box 3511, Station C FAX:(613) 763-3283 bschmidt@bnr.ca Ottawa Ontario Canada K1Y 4H7