IN10@UDESVM.BITNET (Marc Mazuhelli) (10/03/90)
I am sending this to the list as I can't reach Rick Sutcliffe:
This is in response to an inquiry about Telnet versions and LocalTalk:
There are (at least) two versions of Telnet:
- one that uses a LocalTalk to Ethernet gateway (GatorBox, Fastpath,
Multigate, ...) which is problably what you want. I think it's the
first wersion that came out and it's usually called just Telnet.
We use it here at Universite de Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec on
macs with LocalTalk through a GatorBox gateway and it works very well!
- the other version is called something like Talnet-Mac TCP and, you guessed
it, it uses MacTCP, which can use either a gateway like the first version
OR a direct connexion to Ethernet (we have one SE/30 with an Ethernet card
that uses that version, and it works fine also). The advantage of MacTCP
is that you can do more than one thing that uses TCP/IP at the same time
(example: an FTP transfer from one site, a 3270 session with am IBM
mainframe using tn3270 (MacTCP version) and a VT100 session on a UNIX
host using Telnet Mac-TCP (or SU-MAC/IP that we also use here), all
at the same time!!
The last part of your message intrigued me. You say you have a "slip
version of Telnet". I didn't know such a version existed. Am I right
in thinking that it permits telnet sessions through a serial link
(possibly with a modem on each end of the line)? If so, how exactly
does it work? Nobody here seems to know how SLIP works...
I hope what I told you helps, and I also hope you will help me understand
SLIP. I would really like to do ftp's and telnet's from home...
Marc Mazuhelli, professor
Universite de Sherbrooke
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