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From: mra@srchtec.uucp (Michael Almond)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Telebit Bridge
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Date: 22 Oct 90 18:41:00 GMT
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	I saw an artcile in PC Week or Info. World about Telebit's bridge that
allows you to connect a set of modems directly to you network to support SLIP
over dialup lines.  Did anyone else see this?

	What it basically does is listen to the Ethernet for TCP/IP address
that match an internal lookup table.  Once a match occurs the bridge dials
out to the SLIP host an establishes a connection and packets start to flow.

	I was wondering if anyone has considered or is using this type of
bridge.  My company will be connecting to PSINet in the very near future and
I need to decide between using SLIP software on a Ultrix machine or using this
Telebit bridge.

	What bothers me most about the Ultrix alternative is detecting when the
line is lost.  I could put something in crontab to ping the host every so
often, but this sounds sort of crude.

	Any ideas?

	Thanks.

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