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From: lyle@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Lyle Weiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Re: SLIP source wanted for HP9000/340
Message-ID: <4310136@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 18 Sep 90 17:34:18 GMT
References: <8490013@hpopd.HP.COM>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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I can't take credit for this, many other people did all the work.  I
just happen to know who they are, and am posting this so that everybody
who reads this group and wants SLIP can reap the benefits of that work.
It'll be ready on Sept. 21.

--lyle
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Point-to-Point Link (PPL)
------------------------

Because of the demand for SLIP in some critical customer situations, IND
has made available an early version of the Point-to-Point Link (PPL) 
networking feature available as an unsupported feature of LAN/9000 
Link Release 7.0 (Product No. 36967A for Series 800, Product No. 98171A
for Series 300). PPL is an inexpensive way to connect PCs and other 
standalone systems to a network running TCP/IP applications. PPL defines 
a method of sending Internet packets over standard RS-232 asynchronous 
serial lines. PPL will include the SLIP, ASLIPC and ASLIPS protocols. 

Users can run the 'ppl' command program to set-up:

(1) Dial-in to HP 9000 serial IP lines
(2) Dial-out to HP 9000 serial IP lines
(3) Direct connection to HP 9000 serial lines

Starting on September 21, a copy of the PPL product can be obtained 
through the Fort Collins patch machine, hpfcse. The PPL software will 
be stored in "shar" format under the 'UNSUPP' directory.  Just create a 
directory 'ni' under /tmp and copy the patch into this new directory.  
Then follow the instructions in the README.

For PPL on the S300, get the file 's300_ppl', and for PPL on the S800, 
get the file 's800_ppl'.  This shar file contains 12 PPL files and 3 PPL 
documents including a README-First, the PPL user documentation ("Using 
Serial Line IP Protocols") and the corresponding man pages in troff format.

Caveat: All PPL  configurations and all applications running over the PPL 
connection are unsupported in HP-UX Release 7.0. 

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I'd like to make a clarification note about where on hpfcse to get SLIP. 

For the Series 300, you can get the file s300_ppl from the directory, 
UNSUPP/s300_lan.

For the Series 800, you can get the file s800_ppl from the directory, 
UNSUPP/s800_lan.