Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Dial up SLIP Message-ID: <5090@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 2 Feb 89 19:15:26 GMT References: <558@mitisft.Convergent.COM> <32958@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 23 In article <32958@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Bill Wisner writes: >A protocol called SLFP, developed at MIT, has been added to the Atari ST port >of KA9Q TCP/IP by a University of Michigan person, and has been implemented >on Michigan's MERIT network. It allows dial-up Internet access like SLIP, >but with an interesting twist. When an ST with KA9Q dials into MERIT, both >ends automatically begin talking SLFP. But MERIT dynamically allocates >the ST an IP address. The address assigned is different every time a >connection is made. Howard Chu (umix!hyc), myself, and Bill Doster (Bill_Doster@um.cc.umich.edu) have worked on slfp with ka9q. The net result is that MERIT users possessing a modem and a PC can ftp files and use telnet. The files were available for anonymous ftp from umix.cc.umich.edu. Non internet people might try a public access unix system available at (313) 994-6333. -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Ann Arbor, MI mailrus!b-tech!zeeff