snms4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (12/10/90)
I've got this notion that it's possible to boot my work PC into KA9Q, talking to a SLIP packet driver and a 'normal' Ethernet packet driver, and run a SLIP packet driver at home. Here's a picture: Home PC<->SLIP PD<->modem<--phone line-->modem<->SLIP PD<->KA9Q@work<-> Enet PD<->Local Ethernet <-> Internet Is this workable? Is there a better way? I guess what I really need is for some people doing something similar to this to drop me a line and let me know how they did it, and what special considerations are necessary. Please reply to me, I'll summarize to the net. -Kevin Mullet University of North Texas
cec@cup.portal.com (Cerafin E Castillo) (12/11/90)
I have done a home PC connection to a work LAN in the following way:
PC <=> modem <==> modem <=> Terminal Server (Annex) <=> ethernet
The inexpensive side of the connection is the home PC and modem, all of
the big time stuff is at the office. A terminal server is a great way
to go, if it can handle CSLIP and routing (RIP). KA9Q [NOS] (PPP.12)
included not only PPP but CSLIP, as well. I would recommend using CSLIP
or PPP with VJ header compression to do this type of connection. It would
be faster and more reliable. The Telebit NetBlazer is a worthwhile
alternative which can handle all of these protocols for Wide Area Networking.
E-mail me for more info.
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===============================================================================ccruss@pollux (Russ Hobby) (12/12/90)
In article snms4@vaxb.acs.unt.edu writes: >I've got this notion that it's possible to boot my work PC into KA9Q, talking >to a SLIP packet driver and a 'normal' Ethernet packet driver, and run a SLIP >packet driver at home. Here's a picture: > > >Home PC<->SLIP PD<->modem<--phone line-->modem<->SLIP PD<->KA9Q@work<-> >Enet PD<->Local Ethernet <-> Internet >Is this workable? Is there a better way? I have been doing this for some time now with the only difference being that the link protocol is PPP on KA9Q. A list of public PPP implimentations is included below. One area that has some options is how your home PC looks to the rest of the world as represented by the office PC. One option is to assign a subnet to your home PC (and any other hosts that connect through the office PC). The office PC then needs to advertise that subnet to the world. In KA9Q we use RIP. This is the method we use for our PPP servers (also PCs running KA9Q) that many campus people dial into. If you do not want to use a whole subnet when just one host is connecting through the office PC, you can use proxy arp. In this case your home PC has an IP address that is on the office subnet and the office PC will arp for both itself and for the home PC. This can be done in KA9Q by making a manual entry in the office PC's arp table. This is the method that I use for the PPP connection directly to my office PC rather than through the campus PPP server. BTW, with the latest KA9Q PPP implementation, the PPP servers and office PC assign the home PC's IP address at connection time based on the authentication, so I don't have to worry about making configuration changes on the home PC no matter which one I dial up. Here is the list of public PPP implementations of which I know. If you know of others, please let me know.: MS-DOS - async ppp for KA9Q Author: Katie Stevens <dkstevens@ucdavis.edu> anonymous ftp to ucdavis.edu cd dist/ppp Files NETPPP.ARC -- compiled code; KA9Q with PPP, sample startup files SRC.ARC -- source code; unmodified distribution file for KA9Q Internet Software Package PPPSRC.ARC -- source code; additional files for PPP UNIX 4.3 bsd - async ppp Author: Drew Perkins <ddp@andrew.cmu.edu> anonymous ftp to lancaster.andrew.cmu.edu cd pub/ppp Files ppp.shar Sun OS - async ppp Author: Brad Clements <bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu> anonymous ftp to omnigate.clarkson.edu cd pub/sun Files ppp.tar.Z SUN OS - sync ppp Author: Torben Neilsen <torben@foralie.ics.hawaii.edu> Contact author for information ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Russell Hobby Data Communications Manager U. C. Davis Computing Services INTERNET: rdhobby@ucdavis.edu Davis Ca 95616 BITNET: RDHOBBY@UCDAVIS (916) 752-0236 UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!rdhobby