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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Slip over telnet
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 11:11:57 -0500 (CDT)
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> > One idea for getting SLIP over telnet (binary mode, I assume, 8 bit
> > clean) would be to run TIA, The Internet Adapter.  Costs $25, but it
> > seems to work well enough for what most people want.
> > 
> > I'm sorry if this blantant commercialism is out of place on this list.
> > I just thought I'd offer a solution.
> 
> Not at all - just say a LITTLE more about it, is all! :-)
> 
> How does it work?

tia is a SLIP emulator.  It resides as a user process on a UNIX system, and
basically opens "proxy" TCP connections using the system calls on the host
UNIX system.  This is actually quite slick, but isn't horribly complicated
or difficult...

This means that TIA cannot do certain things.  However, it also means that
it's easier to configure and use:  since the IP addresses involved between
the remote SLIP client and TIA don't have to be "perfectly correct", it
tends to be easier for newbies to use.

And yes, it works under FreeBSD.

... Joe

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