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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: mactcp and SLIP
Message-ID: <kid]e2.3pb@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 19 Aug 90 21:34:19 GMT
References: <3017547@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.protocols.appletalk, article <3017547@AppleLink.Apple.COM>,
  D1749@applelink.apple.com (Disini SW, Emmanuel Disini,PRT) writes:
< >Hmm, I've not heard of MacTCP being able to talk to SLIP.  Do have
< >reason to think it will?
<  
<The A/UX 2.0 documentation claims that MacTCP will work over both localtalk and
<serial lines(SLIP), as well as Ethertalk.  Obviously, from the various messages
<posted in response to my query, the documentation got way ahead of R&D.  Now,
<I'm wondering if MacTCP works at all over localtalk?
< 
While the current version of MacTCP is extensible, there seem to be problems
with letting it talk SLIP (I suppose that it can't deal with receiving
anything other than a whole packet at a time, or something like that?? Anyone
know exactly?) and, accoring to a posting a few weeks back, a revision is in
the works.

The A/UX version of MacTCP simply uses the kernel networking support and just
translates the MacTCP interface to the Unix world. If you have SLIP configured
into the kernel, then obviously MacTCP can talk SLIP that way.

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