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- From: peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
- Subject: Re: adding SLIP to sVr4 (Dell archive)
- Message-ID: <Bs6J8w.2w5@zeus.dialix.oz.au>
- Organization: Karam Pty. Ltd. Perth, Australia
- References: <8160@orbit.cts.com> <1992Jul28.183910.26898@crd.ge.com> <1992Jul28.225416.15412@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 02:07:44 GMT
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- mah@parrot.prv.univie.ac.at (Michael Haberler) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul28.183910.26898@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- >|> In article <8160@orbit.cts.com>, dougm@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Doug Mcintyre) writes:
- >|> | What is needed to add SLIP to sVr4? I take it I need a bootp client/server of
- >|> | some kind, and someway to add the SLIP commands into the existing TCP/IP
- >|> | implementation?
- >|>
- >|> There's a public domain version floating around, or maybe you can get
- >|> something off the Dell archives, SLIP is part of their V.4.
-
- >Unfortunately, at closer inspection it turns out that neither of the
- >two slip packages on dell*.dell.com are the base of the code
- >distributed by Dell. I found out because I wanted to add VJ compression.
-
- Have a look on rapfast.unibase.sk.ca in /pub/something. Roe Peterson
- has done a very nice upgrade to the PD sunos 4 SLIP, his has VJ and
- all the works. It wont conflict with an existing driver if you have one.
-
- Just to point out something that should be fairly obvious, you *NEED*
- a fast link for this slip to work. SVR4 has large buffers at each
- module in the TCP/IP chain, and it chokes any retrys at slow speeds.
- (It apparently is OK at 9600+)
-
- Dell's slip is independently based on the sunos code as well (I think..).
- It has no relation the the dynamic slip that USL ships. You should be able
- to duplicate most of the functionality in dell's drivers. (it works
- for me..)
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