Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: SLIP modem autodialing and idle line detection Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 15:03:27 GMT References: <1852@hawk.nstn.ns.ca> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: bushell@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA's message of 26 Nov 90 12:02:54 GMT On 26 Nov 90 12:02:54 GMT, bushell@HAWK.NSTN.NS.CA (Tom Bushell) said: bushell> We're about to offer dial in Internet access over SLIP for NSTN bushell> (the Nova Scotia Technology Network). Our plan is to let our bushell> customers use public domain packages like NSCD Telnet with the bushell> Clarkson SLIP packet driver to dial in to a central teminal bushell> server, using Hayes compatable modems with their PCs. I will not comment on the auto-dial problem, which is fairly obvious, but I will sternly warn you that using SLIP for such an application is largely suboptimal. By all means switch to PPP. SLIP is a patch up job for connecting _two_ machines with a temporary link. If you want to do the proper thing, that is a dial up IP network, PPP is the answer. It provides the framework to solve many difficult problems that any SLIP setup just ignores. There are already PPP implementations for the most popular architectures, and I seem to remember that ther eis even a NOS version with PPP compiled in. PPP support is not as diffuse as SLIP support, but since you are just starting, by all means do not lock yourself into a dead end. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com