worsley@ditmela.oz (Andrew Worsley) (09/01/89)
In the Sun Times I saw an advert for Annex terminal server with "advanced SLIP" available. Does any one know what this is? Is this another release of the annex software? What I am hoping is that Advanced SLIP contains dail SLIP support, Van Jacobsen's header compression code, prehaps even an implementation of ppp (point to point protocol) (only a draft RFC as far as I know). Any information answering these questions much appreciated. Andrew Worsley -- Division of Information Technology (Melbourne), Phone +61 3 347 8644 C.S.I.R.O. Fax +61 3 347 8987 55 Barry St. Telex AA 152914 Carlton, Vic, 3053, Australia E-mail: worsley@ditmela.oz.au
loverso@Xylogics.COM (John Robert LoVerso) (09/01/89)
I cannot commit to what might be contained in R5.0, since it is still under development. However, I can point out that in the past few months we've demonstrated quite a few things. Dial-up SLIP has already been shown and is part of R4.1. Further extensions to that for a dial-out capability are planned. At the Baltimore USENIX conference, and again at the Boston UNIFORUM show, an Annex II terminal server was used to provide a SLIP connection from the local net (just the terminal room at USENIX, and the whole vendor net at UNIFORUM) to Internet. In both cases, a pre-release version of Van Jacobson's header compression code was used (great thanks to Van for making that possible), and the physical link was over a pair of Telebit T2500 V.32 modems. Finally, in the planning stages for next month at the InterOP-89 conf in San Jose, is a multi-vendor interoperability demonstration of the proposed Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). Xylogics is committed to being a part of this demonstration. Also a note: coming soon is to be an "info-annex" mailing list, and (I've been told) a "comp.sys.annex" inet-distribition newsgroup. John -- John Robert LoVerso Xylogics, Inc. 617/272-8140 loverso@Xylogics.COM Annex Terminal Server Development Group