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From: Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net>
Subject: Re: Connecting to Internet
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 11:51:53 -0800
Organization: Not Very Much
Message-ID: <38A46859.ACD7907E@value.net>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
> In article <mzXo4.83$ysd1.2424964@tomcat.sk.sympatico.ca>,
> <d.cox@sk.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Let me explain further what I am trying to do. I have a PPP connection to
> the Internet, which I dial into with my modem. I have the ZIICS program
> that works on a shell connection to a telnet server, to provide a graphical
> user interface for Internet chess. I would like to be able to get ZIICS to
> work on my PPP connection. As it is now ZIICS will dial up, log in and then
> can't work with the PPP protocol. I thought that Kermit was similar in this
> regard, so if I could figure out how Kermit managed to handle it , then
> maybe I could get ZIICS to work too. It seems that Kermit requires a PPP
> packet driver. I have download one. I can get it to dial into my Internet
> number and log in. It looks like the driver is communicating with my
> connection, but then I am returned to the Dos prompt. I can't get either
> Kermit or ZIICS to use this driver.
I think I understand what you're trying to do. The short answer is
Kermit is not relevant.
True, MS-Kermit can make direct dial-up connections to a host and can
also work with help over a PPP connection, but MS-Kermit has its own
TCP/IP stack to enable it to communicate using TCP/IP which is the
protocol used over a PPP connection. Presumably, ZIICS does not have
this and has no way to speak TCP/IP without further assistance.
Possibly, yet another networking layer could be added between ZIICS and
the PPP connection to accomplish what you're trying to do, but figuring
out how to do it with MS-Kermit and then transferring that knowledge to
ZIICS is not going to provide much help.
--
Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan