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From: jeffery@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG (Jeff Sheese)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: dialup SLIP (again)
Message-ID: <3.2451F9F2@jsheese.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 23 Apr 89 16:26:00 GMT
Organization: JStek Enterprises - Frederick, MD
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In an article of <23 Apr 89 13:32:27 GMT>, jqj@HOGG.CC.UOREGON.EDU writes:

 >It has been suggested (including on this forum) that one could use
 >dialup SLIP to create backup paths in leased-line wans.  If an
 >intermediate router in my regional network went down, I could just
 >automatically call past it and temporarily use a SLIP connection while
 >the primary was being restored.
 >
 >Is anybody (besides me) actually experimenting with this use of dialup 
 >SLIP?  

Contact mju@m-net.UUCP.  He and several others have modified the source
for KA9Q software to use dialup SLIP with the Merit network in Ann
Arbor and Detroit Michigan.
--  
Jeff Sheese - via FidoNet node 1:109/116
UUCP: ...!netsys!jsheese!jeffery

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