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From: brunner@telebit.com (Eric Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Miniumum hardware required to support SLIP connection?
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Date: 18 Jun 91 23:11:29 GMT
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In article <229@eclectic.COM> kovar@eclectic.com (David C. Kovar) writes:
>
>  If one wanted to add dialup SLIP capability to a network, what is
>the minimum set of hardware required? You definitely need a modem,
>Telebit TrailBlazer, for example, but after that ... what? A Cisco
>router will do the trick, but is there anything less expensive?
>Basically, I'd like to be able to attach a modem to the phone line,
>the modem to a piece of hardware, the hardware to the Ethernet, and,
>with a minimum of configuration, be able to dial into that modem and
>establish a SLIP connection. Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>Thanks, in advance!
>

Well, I think that I'm about as cheap as one can get. I went out and got
dialupip version 2.0 and installed it on several machines (sony running news,
ibm rt running 4.3, and a sun 3 running 3.5). Then I got a Netblazer from
Telebit (prior to my present test-related contract) and two additional modems
(I'd already a rack of them for my vax, of these two were trailblazers).

Now I can a) slip into my office from my sun 3 at home,
	  b) slip from the telebit test lab over to my office,
	  c) assuming I'd scads of routes at home and at my office, rip with
	     the best of them.

Total cost, well let's say I got a very good price. Most of the "cost" was
debugging dialupip2.0. If I'd have had to actually pay for what I've gotten,
I would have, and that would be my host-independent slip|ppp link to the
rest of the world, e.g. a regional or commercial or cooperative carrier.
Oh, at least 9.6 over standard voice lines, 19.2 when PacBell is not under
too much stress. Sync cards at 56Kb would be in next Christmas' stocking.

Eric Brunner
consulting to, not employed by Telebit