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- On Sat, 2 Apr 1994, Ike Bottema wrote:
-
- > mikenel@netcom.com (Michael Nelson) writes:
- >
- > >eivindh@met.sintef.no wrote:
- > >: This might be a silly question, anyway:
- >
- > I've been lurking for an answer to this question. Thanks for asking.
- >
- > >: I guess any answeres would be interesting to others than myself!
- >
- > OK let *me* ask the next silly question(s). Does this mean that the stack on
- > the *other* PC (the one I'm communicating with) must have a WfW stack?
-
- No.
-
- >
- > I'm assuming that the "connected" host must be a PC. Is this true?
-
- No... the other machine can be a UNIX machine. It's still TCP/IP, it's
- just that the driver on your machine only works on WFW.
-
- > It seems intuitively obvious that the other PC must have a WfW stack
- > but if so the logical extension is that connecting to a Unix-based SLIP
- > server can't be done. Is my reasoning flawed and if so where?
-
- No... TCP/IP is TCP/IP.
-
- For instance, you couldn't use the Solaris Network drivers under WFW, but
- Solaris can still talk to a WFW machine... same thing. It has to do with
- how the driver communicates with the computer, not how the machines talk
- over the network.
-
- -- Mike
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-