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From: time@tbomb.ice.com (Tim Endres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Repost: SLIP on MacTCP
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Date: 8 Feb 91 14:39:14 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.161243.27988@cshl.org>, cozza@cshl.org (Steven Cozza at Grace Computer Center) writes:
> Does anybody know of a connection tool that does SLIP?  I have been looking
> for anything that would allow our users to connect their Macs at off-site
> locations running MacX, with on-site UNIX machines.  I tried TCP/Connect II
> but it doesn't come with a SLIP connection tool, and KA9Q but I can't
> figure out how to use it over a modem or if its even possible. So if anybody
> knows of a product or shareware package or even a possible alternative (PPP)
> I would appreciate any info.  Thanks.

Isn't this is little more complex than a CTB SLIP Tool? I mean, slip is
the IP layer over a serial line. The CTB SLIP Tool would need to be a
data stream (i.e., have TCP encapsulated in it) or would have to be
used by the TCP Tool used for this data stream (meaning a Connection
Tool talking through a Connection Tool?) or the Application Layer would
have to implement the TCP, otherwise the data stream would be
unreliable (i.e., not a guarenteed data stream like TCP) which is
the desired end result for things like SMTP and NNTP and the sort.

tim.

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