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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: SL/IP capable terminal servers
Keywords: Cisco, Annex II terminal servers with SL/IP.
Message-ID: <915@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 18 Dec 89 05:17:36 GMT
References: <993@scifi.UUCP> <910@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <910@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>Yeah.  I've been using an Annex as my gateway for about a year.
>It's pretty good as a SLIP server.  The drawback is that it doesn't
>advertise my net using RIP (I have to have a hacked-up 4.3 system
>run a proxy RIP daemon pointing other machines to the Annex box
>for my subnet) and I've haven't had much luck running routed on my
>SLIP machine so that the other machines on my local net are reachable--
>the Annex appears to crash when I run routed on my SLIP/ethernet gateway
>machine, and I haven't figured out how to install a static route
>on the Annex.

A couple of people have pointed out to me that Annex software release 4.1
is very robust and should not crash.  My experience was with a pre-4.1
release.  In fact, on the basis of their responses, having checked that
the Annex was now running 4.1, I tried running routed again on my SLIP/ethernet
gateway machine today with great success. I've also been told that Proxy-RIP
isn't needed provided you RTFM for the new release, so I'll plan on looking
at that this week.

Once these are solved, an Annex box makes a great SLIP server.
(In fact, it was a fine SLIP server earlier; it just wasn't a complete gateway.)

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu