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- From: fillmore@emr1.emr.ca (Bob Fillmore 992-2832)
- Subject: Re: SLIP over a TELNET Link?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.142554.12716@emr1.emr.ca>
- Organization: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
- References: <1992Jul20.044812.5525@PA.dec.com> <auy1H==nk8@atlantis.psu.edu> <CKD.92Jul20140814@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:25:54 GMT
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- In article <CKD.92Jul20140814@loiosh.eff.org> ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- >David> == David Barr <barr@darwin.psu.edu>
- >
- > David> And I thought it was sick when the College of Engineering
- > David> decided to use DECNET to encapsulate IP packets so they could
- > David> have one virtual ethernet spanning buildings. (It was
- > David> apparently the only solution. I still can't believe it)
- >
- >Sickest of all was the "proposal" to put IP packets in MIME-format
- >multimedia messages. That gives you IP over UUCP, even over a
- >multiple-hop UUCP path.
- >
-
- How about IP-over-SLIP-over-DECNETsethost-over-X.25?
- Somebody here is actually using that in a production network!
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