tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) (11/30/90)
Can MacTCP support serial line (SLIP?) communications? I know it supports LocalTalk and EtherTalk. Please reply by e-mail Thanks! Tim -- tjfs@tadtec.uucp ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!tadtec!tjfs Tadpole Technology plc, Science Park, Milton Road, CAMBRIDGE, CB4 4WQ Phone: +44-223-423030 Fax: +44-223-420772 Telex: 817316 TADTEC G
MAUKONEN@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (12/03/90)
I too would be interested in this. Will it be in the next release of MacTcp ? Thanks Chris maukonen@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu Chris Maukonen Sr. Systems Programmer Univ. Central Florida Orlando, Fla.
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/04/90)
In article <TJFS.90Nov30154559@tadtec.uucp>, tjfs@tadtec.uucp (Tim Steele) writes: > Can MacTCP support serial line (SLIP?) communications? > > I know it supports LocalTalk and EtherTalk. > > Please reply by e-mail > > Thanks! > > Tim > -- Umm, not to my knowledge. We had some information about how to do this, but we (InterCon) has not done anything with this yet, because there currently is just not a good way to do it (SLIP). I am unaware of any other efforts in this area at this point in time. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/04/90)
Argh, let me correct a bit of what I said. You could do what you want a couple of ways. Since you can use MacTCP over AppleTalk you could use one of several ways to connect AppleTalk over serial lines to do the actual connection and then connecting using MacTCP. It's worth a try. Shiva's NetModem products (EtherGate as well), or Farrallons Liason might do the trick for you. -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) (12/06/90)
I too am eagerly awaiting SLIP support in MacTCP. In particular, we would very, very much like to be able to support the use of MacTCP-based applications by Mac users who use a modem to connect to our Cisco terminal server. For every Mac on the Northwestern campus which is directly connected to our campus internet, there are ten more which have only modem access. I know that there are various free and commercial Mac software packages which do support SLIP TCP/IP (the serial version of Eudora, KA9Q, Intercon's TCP-Connect II, etc.), but I really don't want to have to support two completely different parallel sets of Mac TCP/IP application software, one set for directly connected Macs, and another set for dialup Macs. SLIP support in MacTCP seems like the natural and obvious solution to our problem. From various conversations and reading of postings, I understand that SLIP support cannot simply be "tacked" on top of the existing MacTCP 1.0.1 implementation, but would have to be done by Apple as part of MacTCP itself (or at least more "hooks" would have to be implemented in MacTCP). I'm not an expert on this though, so I could easily be wrong. In the past I've heard rumors that SLIP support in MacTCP was coming REAL SOON NOW :-), and now I hear in this thread that there's no activity in this area right now. I know that companies don't usually let their employees comment on "unannounced products", but couldn't someone from Apple or elsewhere at least let us know if this is a "planned future direction"? This is important to us here at NU and to many other people. John Norstad Academic Computing and Network Services Northwestern University jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
MAUKONEN%ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (12/17/90)
I would like to echo John's comments. We are planning to have SLIP support here at UCF real soon and would like to be able to support the growing number of Macs that are not netorked. SLIP in MacTCP would most difinately help. Chris Maukonen Univ. Central Flori
kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) (12/18/90)
In article <1627@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>, jln@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Norstad) writes: > I know that companies don't usually let their employees comment on > "unannounced products", but couldn't someone from Apple or elsewhere at > least let us know if this is a "planned future direction"? This is > important to us here at NU and to many other people. Well, we have never kept the fact that we want to do SLIP/PPP for MacTCP a secret. But we need to have a few more hooks put into place before we can easily do so. We have a fair number of people who are interested in the samething that you are, but... -- Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation 703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products 703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.