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From: manager@cai.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Asynchronous TCP
Message-ID: <360.275f698b@cai.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 10:06:03 GMT
References: <1990Dec04.215433.3007@cs.widener.edu> <358@srchtec.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Organization: Computer Associates International
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In article <358@srchtec.UUCP>, mra@srchtec.UUCP (Michael Almond) writes:
> In article <1990Dec04.215433.3007@cs.widener.edu> austin@cs.widener.edu (Jeff Austin) writes:
>>     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.
> 
> What you are looking for is SLIP.  There is a public domain version NCSA
> which runs on top of the packet drivers.  There is a packet driver for the
> PC which supports SLIP.  I'm sure you can find a PD version of SLIP for
> your VMS also.
> 

Carnegie Mellon's CMU-TEK TCP/IP for VAX/VMS systems supports SLIP, X.25,
and DECnet in addition to standard Ethernet. I have no affiliation to
Carnegie Mellon except as a satisfied hacker of CMU-TEK.

-- 
Todd Aven
Manager, Mid-range Computer Services
Computer Associates International

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