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- From: ravi@mercury.uucp (Ravindra P Nirgudkar)
- Subject: Re: SLIP over a TELNET Link?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.144631.292@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: Electrical Engineering Dept. Mississippi State University
- References: <1992Jul20.044812.5525@PA.dec.com> <auy1H==nk8@atlantis.psu.edu> <CKD.92Jul20140814@loiosh.eff.org>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:46:31 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.
- >
- >(You definitely have to tweak the retransmit timers though :-)
- >--
- >Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
- > ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the
- > point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
- > to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
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- Hello Netters,
-
- I am Ravi Nirgudkar, a graduate student in Electrical Engg. at Mississippi
- State Univ. I would like to have information on following terms.
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- (1) F.L.D.I. Fiber Line Distributed Interface.
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- (2) Dual F.D.D.I.
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- I will appreciate, if any of you can send me references, where I can get more information.
-
- Thanks
-
- Ravi
- P.S. Please send me the mail at ravi@ee.msstate.edu
-