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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: SLIP Connecting Networks
Message-ID: <7510@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 11 May 91 16:30:14 GMT
References: <34978@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <34978@boulder.Colorado.EDU> BILLW@mathom.cisco.com (WilliamChops Westfield) writes:
>The official word from cisco is that it doesn't work.  It can be made
>to work on the "trouter" combination router/terminal server (two
>interfaces, 16 terminal lines), but the terminal server code is only
>capable of associating a single IP address with each async line, and
>te IP destination of the packets has to match that for the packet to
>get forwarded to SLIP...

Which is a real shame.  The Encore/Xylogics Annex has had this
capability for a long time.  I had my (admittedly tiny) home
ethernet on the other end of a Annex SLIP line with full reachability
for about two years before I upgraded from SLIP to a faster net interface.
I'd really like to extend the same courtesy to others, but my STS-10X
can't hack it, for what appear to me to be purely marketing reasons.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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