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From: dhoyman@vms.macc.wisc.edu
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Subject: Re: MacTCP over Dialup AppleTalk?
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Date: 14 Feb 91 17:55:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb13.052728.22533@parc.xerox.com>, sanders@parc.xerox.com (Rex Sanders) writes...

> 
>By dialup AppleTalk, I'm talking about products like Shiva NetModem,
>Farallon Liason, Hayes Interbridge, etc., with Shiva FastPath or
>Cayman GatorBox doing AppleTalk-TCP/IP routing (see diagram below).
> 
>Can you get acceptable performance for MacX, Eudora, or NCSA Telnet
>with this scheme?
> 
>Is 2400 baud uselessly slow?  Is 9600 baud usable?
>
I have been trying to use the Shiva dial-in access at 2400 and then do Telnet.
But, so far I have only gotten "Host not responding" errors.  

I believe that this is due to MacTCP timing out, but am not sure.

I posted a message about this last week, but no one has been able to tell me 
if one can change MacTCP timeeout parameters. 
> 
>-- Rex Sanders
>   sanders.parc@xerox.com

Dirk Herr-Hoyman
UW-Madison, Dept. of Family Medicine and Practice
dhoyman@fammed.wisc.edu
608-262-6368