memphis (Ronald V. Simmons) (11/27/90)
As I'm sure others did, I ftp'd the version of DialUpIP (SLIP for the cube) that was mentioned on the net a couple of weeks ago. After much head scratching, (that's the hair loss part, I don't even qualify as a TCP/IP novice, much less guru) I think I have the part down that connects me to a remote mainframe somewhere thats running SLIP. Unfortunately, that's not the part that I need. The part I need is the one that the documentation (sic) says is easy, i.e. hooking 2 cubes together so that I can do neat stuff like Speaker/Listener pairs that really, really work at long range and remote Sybase queries, et al. I'm reasonably sure that I am missing something silly since I can see from the log files that are generated by my modem script that I get connected to the remote host. However, when I ping (or ftp, or mount -t nfs) nothing happens. I suspect that what's missing is that I'm not communicating with the inet or netinfo demons on the other side, but I can't figure out how to make this happen. Of course, I could be completely mistaken, too. If you have any suggestions or experience, please respond via e-mail to ...!uunet!memphis!rvs or memphis!rvs@uunet.uu.net and I'll summarize any good stuff to the net.