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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU>
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On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, HMG coA reductase wrote:

> Hi, my miserly university doesn't give me PPP access, so i'm stuck with a 
> shell dialin to play with. Is there such a thing as "Twinsock" (a SLIP 
> emulator for Windows) for FreeBSD? Is it easy to write one, based on the 
> (available) Twinsock sources?

Sounds like you want SLiRP instead, to turn a shell dialin into a SLIP 
connection.  

Some sysadmins don't like SLiRP, though, so be warned.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major