From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 5 18:11:14 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA07240 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 18:11:14 -0700 Received: from mail02.mail.aol.com (mail02.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.66]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA07234 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 18:11:10 -0700 From: StevenR362@aol.com Received: by mail02.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA204850634; Wed, 5 Apr 1995 21:10:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 21:10:34 -0400 Message-Id: <950405211012_73254264@aol.com> To: nwestfal@silicon.csci.csusb.edu, imp@village.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Slip over telnet Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >There is a new alternative to TIA, and it's free. It also comes with >source, in fact the author states that he took the TCP/IP code from >the >FreeBSD 2.0R sources. >The program is called slirp, and it seems to work better than TIA, at >least for me. It is still alpha. It supports port redirection, and >the author also intends to add PPP support. >You can ftp SLiRP updates and patches from ftp://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/pub/slirp ftp://freedom.wit.com/misc4/danjo/SLiRP I've tried 0.9a and it was a little rough around the edges. Telnet worked fine but ftp was somewhat broken. I am going to give 0.9b a try and see if it has fixed this. Once this program has gone thru a few quick iterations I'm hoping to be able to run Netscape at home over my dialup university shell account. Way cool! and it's free with source. Steve