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From: gda@creare.UUCP (Gray Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Need to know about SLIP (plp?)
Keywords: SLIP, plp,
Message-ID: <6053@creare.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 16:42:40 GMT
Organization: Creare Inc., Hanover, NH
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Can someone please fill me in on SLIP for HP-UX?  I have a
pressing need and my HP sales connections say "we don't have
any SLIP, supported or unsupported".  Yet, I've seen discussion
in this group about one.

What is it?  How can I get it?  How reliable/robust is it?
What are its drawbacks?  I want to make occasional dialup
connections for "ftp" and also run remote X windows (expecting
it to be slow, even with a high-speed modem - we need to do remote
support for a system we wrote for someone).  Can I do these with
this mythical SLIP?

Some SLIPs I've seen on other systems seem to be set up for a
hardwired serial connect, that's UP all of the time.  I don't want
to pay the phone bill for that.  I need it to dialup "on demand".

Others can be set up only as SLIP Servers, other only as Clients.
I need both for HP-UX.

Any info will be greatly appreciated.

				    Gray Abbott
				    Creare, Inc.
				    gda%creare@Dartmouth.EDU