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From: cjdb@ellis.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: What do I need to get to do SLIP?
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Date: 2 May 91 03:02:55 GMT
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I want to do SLIP between an AT-class PC and a SPARCstation running
SunOS 4.1. I imagine I would need a SLIP server from Sun, but I'm not
clear what I would need on the PC end. I've got FTP's PCTCP Plus, but
it's still not clear from looking at that what exactly things like
telnet and rlogin would be talking to on the PC, and how I would get
them.  (The "SLIP drivers" that FTP supplies seem to be the SLIP
servers I would need for the Sun, but the versions of the OS they
support are too old.) 

Conceptually, it seems I need something that replaces the kernel, and
something that drives the serial port that the kernel would talk to.
What exactly is involved? 

(In reality, I would be talking asynchronously to a terminal server,
and it would talk to the Sun, so I'm not sure I even need to bother
getting SLIP for the Sun -- the server I initially contact should take
care of that.)

Thanks.

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