Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 15:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew <hlew@genome.Stanford.EDU> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slip over telnet Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950405145545.19825B-100000@marmite.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <9504051611.AA11618@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, Joe Greco wrote: > > > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net > Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 > I used to use TIA and run FreeBSD with it, but it is not as reliable. The ftp problem I used to have seems to be caused by TIA closing ftp connections rather randomly. TIA tends to lockup quite frequently too. Nevertheless, TIA is the next best thing to a real SLIP/PPP. You can even have a second dummy address like 192.0.2.4 hooked up to your 192.0.2.1 FreeBSD box connected via TIA to the Internet and both of them can access the Internet! -= Howard =-k
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