blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (07/06/90)
I've attached a summary of the responses to my query about AppleTalk and SLIP. Due to time constraints I haven't had a chance to try any of these yet, and due to changing hardware configurations, I may never, but some other people indicated they were interested in the information, so this may help someone else. Thanks to everyone who responded. From moorej@cpsin.cps.msu.edu (Jeff Moore): |if you need a copy of the Ka9Q program, I THINK (?) that it is on |nis.nsf.net (anonymous ftp). From barnett@unclejack.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett): |Intercon's TCP/Connect supports telnet over slip. It costs $500. |Don't know of a public domain package. From: djh@munnari.OZ.AU (David Hornsby) |I have modified the Async DA from Dartmouth to be a Network adev (IE: uses |the LAP manager to select an alternate appletalk driver). I have also |written the UNIX code to go on the other end. It supports speeds 1200 |to 9600 (300 & 19200 also but untried). | |Unfortunately, the way things work with KIP/CAP etc. you need another |gateway to do some of the processing. This stuff currently works fine with |a Multigate and I am in the midst of some code for UAB support on a SUN. | |You can collect what exists to date via anonymous ftp from munnari.OZ.AU as | | multigate/async.atalk.1.2.shar.Z | |Bugs: | 1. version 1.2 bombs sometimes if you are on a Mac Plus/SE at 2400 | AND you have a hard disc. This is an interrupt problem that | has already been fixed in 1.3. | 2. killing the control panel behind the login window leaves an | orphaned window with no storage. | 3. the adev is not compatible with version 2 of the Network cdev. | |Version 1.3 was expected mid June but I am going on leave shortly. This |probably means nothing until about August. When it arrives I expect to have |UAB support and the above bugs fixed. From hv@uwasa.fi, hv@flame.uwasa.fi or hv@funic.funet.fi (Harri Valkama): |Sliptelnet does exist. You can find it available for anonymous ftp at |funic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100). It is located in pub/mac/comm From rick@intercon.com (Rick Kaseguma): |You might want to try TCP/Connect II from Intercon Systems. It supports |telnet (VT100-VT241, IBM TN3270, Tektronics emulations), ftp, news reading |(with an nntp server), mail (using smtp with a pop3 server), and other fun |stuff, all with a nice Macintosh interface. It can use either MacTCP |(included), or its own TCP/IP software, which works correctly over Ethernet, |LocalTalk, or SLIP (with the appropriate SLIP server). | |Disclaimer: I'm baised toward the program, but it's still nice... From dbw@megatek (David B. Wollner): |KA9Q doesn't require ethernet. Any SL/IP implementation is |designed to run over a serial connection. I connected a mac |to a sun over the serial ports using KA9Q. I used the Toronto |implementation of SL/IP on the sun side, although I have heard |that other implementations are better to use currently. From russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto): |There used to be (and possibly still is) a version of NCSA telnet that |works with SLIP at dustbin.cisco.com. You need a config file and other |stuff from standard NCSA telnet. (Modify the hardware setting to SLIP9600 |or SLIP<whatever your baudrate is>) -- Brian L. Matthews blm@6sceng.UUCP