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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: [?] PPP and MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 PL 8
Message-Id: <1995Oct18.075811.64085@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 95 07:58:11 MDT
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In article <4622ht$fik@globe.indirect.com>, monty@indirect.com (Jim Monty) writes:
> I love MS-DOS Kermit 3.14! I prefer it to all other telecommunications
> programs. Its VT-series terminal emulation is unrivaled. I tell everyone
> I know that Kermit is faster than Zmodem. I own the book. And I don't do
> Windows.
>
> I've been using MS-DOS Kermit's built-in TCP/IP in tandem with the
> SLIP8250 packet driver for about a year. Unfortunately, my Internet
> service provider perodically "breaks" my SLIP account, and getting them to
> fix it has become extruciating. They say they only support "modern"
> serial IP drivers. Whenever I call to ask them to restore my SLIP
> account, the first words out of their mouths are invariably always, "Ok,
> go into File/Setup in Trumpet Winsock." They have no patience for my
> wanting plain, vanilla SLIP (not compressed) with a static IP address.
> You get the picture.
>
> Can I use MS-DOS Kermit 3.14 with its built-in TCP/IP in conjunction with
> a PPP driver and an ISP that insists on doling out IP addresses
> dynamically? If so, how?
Yes, but. Yes if it is a Telebit PPP driver. Yes but not dynamic
IP if it is Novell's SLIP_PPP driver. Else probably not.
The reasons are twofold. The top end of the PPP driver must be
something that Kermit can deal with, such as a Ethernet/SLIP Packet Driver
interface or ODI. Then secondly, the dynamically assigned IP number
information has to be communicated to Kermit somehow, and there isn't
any standard on the matter. MSK knows how to work with Telebit's ODIPPP
driver for passing back the IP number, but that's all the information
I have.
If your vendor supports bootp then that should take care of the
IP number problem.
So, there is the PPP driver top level interface standard item,
and there is how to grab the given IP number and feed it into Kermit.
Luckily I don't have to use serial comms at my site and thus I do not
have a collection of PPP drivers to look at.
Joe D.