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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Repost: SLIP on MacTCP
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.215807.25522@visix.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 21:58:07 GMT
References: <1CE00001.wvqydm@tbomb.ice.com>
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
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They key problem here is that what everybody seems to actually want is
a SLIP module for MacTCP.  Unfortunately, current versions of MacTCP
evidently have some timing dependencies that make them unusuable over
slow links (like, say, a 2400 baud modem).  If, at some point, Apple
releases a newer version of MacTCP that can actually handle alternate
link layers well, I suspect that we will quickly see such modules for
SLIP, PPP, X.25, token ring, and any other kind of network hardware
that someone could cram into a Mac.

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Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com
Visix Software Inc.					...!uunet!visix!amanda
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