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From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: SLIP with an ANNEX
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.113952@mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 16:39:52 GMT
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The Annex terminal servers run SLIP (and soon CSLIP), but employ a scheme
where the remote and local IP address for each port have to be preset.

This means on the remote SLIP node (a Sun in my case), the local side of
the SLIP interface will vary and in no way identify the workstation. Also
in my case the SLIP is the only local interface other than the loopback.

Does anyone see a way for me to assign a permanent IP address to the 
workstation, and have the connections from the workstation appear to
come from that address, not the variable Annex chosen address. Unless
I'm missing something, this is exactly what would happen if I had a second
remote workstation connected by ethernet to the first, and routing
through it accross the SLIP link.

Frankly, the Annex scheme seems a bit out of date. The host based SLIPs
seem to handle this with a sliplogin program that can set the IP address
of the SLIP link from an id keyed database. Its a little surprising that
Xylogics hasn't done something like this, they do have host based support
for other data.



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