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Apologies for the cross-posting.

We're starting to get a fair number of requests for SLIP
access to our campus network.  Hurdles which we've
encountered (but haven't yet jumped) include

the addressing issue (one subnet per SLIP circuit--fixable if the
SLIP circuits all terminate in the same box or you
only need terminal SLIP),

dynamic IP address assignment
for dial-up SLIP (we haven't set up a BOOTP server because
1) we're not sure we want to be in the business of
supporting dial-up SLIP access and 2) because we're not
sure we want *anyone* to be able to become a full network
peer from a dial-up port),

and political issues like when a student graduates and leaves
the university environment, but wants to retain Internet access...

We'd appreciate hearing from other sites which have hopefully
arrived at some rational solutions to these problems.

Thanks,
Robert Craig                          domain: robert@vm1.mcgill.ca
Senior Network Analyst                bitnet: robert@mcgill1
McGill University Computing Centre    Tel: (514) 398-3710
805 Sherbrooke St. W.                 FAX: (514) 398-6876
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6              CORISQ: (514) 398-RISQ