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From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
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Subject: Re: DialUpIP SLIP is available
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Date: 14 Jun 91 19:46:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun14.174406.22729@ccu.umanitoba.ca> tilley@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard Tilley) writes:

>Is there a SLIP server that runs on a NeXT?

The DialUpIP port to the NeXT that I did can be used as a slip server.
You could just hang a modem or two on the serial ports and enable a
getty on them.  (Or, you could run the dulogin command instead if you were
only going to use it for SLIP.)

You'd likely configure an entry in the password file, err.., I mean
netinfo database which has a dudisc_slipX command as its shell (where
X is the number of the interface interface corresponding to the
remote).  When the remote NeXT logs into the computer, the
dudisc_slip0 command would connect that tty to the specific interface,
and voila!

I am not sure that you could telnet into the SLIP server, and then
enter SLIP mode on the pty.  You're asking for trouble, as the
telnet/rlogin connection from the modem/terminal server to the NeXT
would have to be 8 bit transparent.  If this paragraph doesn't make
sense to you; good.  Its a sick thing to run SLIP over a TELNET
connection!

Look at the CSNET install.ms[.rtf] file in the distribution for more
detail information about how you might do this.

louie