From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 09:43:35 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA22758 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:43:35 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA22739 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 09:43:06 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26866; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:41:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id TAA08437; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:41:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA28253; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:38:59 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503291738.TAA28253@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Slip over telnet To: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:38:57 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: davide.tome'@galactica.it, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Mar 29, 95 08:06:11 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 705 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > for example if it's possile to do a slattach on device /dev/ttyp01 > > Doesn't matter even if you could, as SLIP won't work over a Telnet link > as telnet uses certain special characters to negotiate parameters. PPP > will work as it will allow some characters to be escaped. I think, with telnet/binary, it should be possible. At least, we do already uucp (and z-modem) locally on a telnet-gatewayed login. Our pty code doesn't support the SLIP line discipline however, but maybe it's worth a try experimenting with it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)