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From: dzoey@TERMINUS.UMD.EDU
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous TCP
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Date: 5 Dec 90 04:26:38 GMT
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>    This may be totally off the wall, but does anyone know of a TCP/IP 
>    product (Public Domain or Proprietary) that will allow TCP to be
>    run over dialed lines between a VMS host and a PC?  I'd like my PC
>    to appear as a remote IP host to the VAX in order to support FTP,
>    TELNET, SMTP, and FINGER.

Actually it's not off the wall at all.  The protocol you are looking for
is called SLIP (Serial Line IP).  Most (all?) commercial packages have
a slip driver including our own (DOSIP).  Of the PD PC packages, I know
that KA9Q has a slip driver.  I believe most VMS TCP/IP packages also
contain SLIP, but I'm not as certain.

There is a replacement to slip for point to point communications (such
as serial lines) called PPP.  However it is not nearly as widely
implemented at this point int time as slip is.  It solves a number of
technical and administrative shortcomings in slip.  For now though,
you're probably better off using slip and changing to PPP later.

				Joe Herman
				U. of Md DOSIP Project.
				dzoey@terminus.umd.edu