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- From: Vicente Cruz <vcruz@tid.es>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Using AmiTCP / PPP / SliRP ????
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:36:47 +0100
- Organization: Telefonica I+D
- Message-ID: <3134687F.41C67EA6@tid.es>
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- Alan L.M. Buxey wrote:
- >
- > Am I just dreaming? Or is it possible??
-
- It is perfectly possible and it works great.
-
- > I have set up AmiTCP.
-
- Use dynamic addressing (0.0.0.0), accept the default net mask and enter
- the DNS hosts reported by SLiRP on startup.
-
- > I have set up PPP for AmiTCP (following MANY tutorials and help files ;) )
-
- All you need is the PPP installation instructions.
-
- > I have compiled SLiRP (1.2c?) that i got from AmiNet , on the SunOS Mainframe
-
- > I have made a dial script that successfully dials in to the mainframe,
- > it also launches SLiRP (slirp ppp -b 14400)
-
- Are you using the built-in PPP dialer or an external one?
-
- > but then nothing.....i can get nothing running, the whole network doesnt
- > even remotely smell like its going to work :(:
-
- Is there any modem activity?
-
- > have i overlooked something here?
-
- Probably.
-
- > or maybe i WAS just dreaming and i cant run this in a similar way to
- > mlink? ie, dial in, run the link....... i want this "proper" network
- > rather than mlink so that i can run some things that only support proper
- > SLIP/PPP
-
- SLiRP does not provide "real" SLIP/PPP, it has to face the same problems
- as MLink. Read about its limitations in the docs.
-
- Regards,
- Vicente Cruz
- vcruz@tid.es
-