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Subject: Re: Connecting to Internet
From: cangel@famvid.com
Message-ID: <NCCo4.36255$ox5.9031854@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>
Organization: bCandid - Powering the world's discussions - http://bCandid.com
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 17:32:29 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2000-02-09 fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu(FrankdaCruz) said:
FD> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
FD> In article <k%jo4.34756$ox5.8508727@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>,
FD> <cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
CA> The version recommended is not the latest release and
CA> without a working packet driver (as yet unnamed) you won't
CA> get far. If you chose the wrong one it will be more
CA> difficult.
FD> When using PPP, a PPP driver is used instead of a packet
FD> driver, but it looks like a packet driver to the
FD> application.
Wrong. It looks like a packet driver because it is one. PPP or
CHAP or PAP or SLIP or CSLIP only involve logging into the ISP.
Ater this is _is_ a packet driver.
FD> This is the world of "shims" in DOS networking.
Or the world of API's and SOCKETS if Windows. So what?
FD> Sometimes you need two or three layers of them,
Name one.
FD> but in this case just the one should suffice.
Yes, it requires only one.
FD> The question is which one. Several are available and we've
FD> had conflicting reports about each one. So some trial and
FD> error is needed.
No it isn't. Some configuration is needed.
None of this explains why you referred this user to the v314
when there is a v315 and v316.
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