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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How to UUCP via TCP/IP
Message-ID: <1006@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 09:52:54 GMT
References: <1407@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Organization: McGill University, Montreal
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Keywords: UUCP TELNET  (we're Here)

In article <1407@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, djn@nmtsun.nmt.edu (David J. Northrop) writes:
> Specifically, how do I get UUCP to run over a TCP/IP and/or TELNET
> connection?  Do I need new software (we're running SunOS v3.5) or is
> there some way I can beat on L-devices to know about using telnet to
> call a remote system.

I don't know about Sun uucp specifically, but 4.3 uucp supports tcp
connections directly.  If two 4.3 machines want to speak to one
another, they merely need set up their L.sys files properly.  Example
time:

	Machine A has uucp name foo and Internet name edgar.foo.edu
	Machine B has uucp name bar and Internet name joseph.bar.edu

The machine A's L.sys may contain a line like

bar Any TCP uucp joseph.bar.edu ogin: uulogin ssword: uupw

(Example adapted from an actual L.sys line for uucp-over-tcp.)

Sun claims 4.3 networking in Sunix 3.5; if this doesn't work, I guess
it's time to beat on them to make good on their claim.  (I wouldn't be
surprised if it didn't work; lots of other things don't, and I know
someone who claims Sun uucp is broken up, down, and sideways even for
normal modem connections.  We don't run uucp off our Suns; all our uucp
is based on our 4.3 machine.)

					der Mouse

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