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- From: ccdarg@dct.ac.uk (Alan Greig)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Need pointers on internet connectivity in the UK
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.105929.1682@dct.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 10:59:29 GMT
- References: <1ek4vfINN9tb@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology
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- In article <1ek4vfINN9tb@agate.berkeley.edu>, sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell) writes:
- >
- > Hello,
- >
- > I'm going to moving to the UK to take a job at University of Sussex, and I
- > have some basic questions about the net. Pardon me if this is not the
- > best place to ask these questions, please give me a tip where I should
- > post.
- >
- > I gather that sites with direct connections to the internet are fairly few
- > and far between in the UK, and that most sites interface to the net via
- > something called Janet. Does Janet have features like ftp and telnet, for
- > file grabbing and remote logging in, respectively.
-
- JANET is an X25 network. As such it supports X29 terminal access and
- additionally supports FTP and other protocols layered over X25. All
- JANET sites now have the option of joining the Internet via IP tunnelling
- over JANET. This network being known as JIPS (JANET IP Service I think).
-
- Even for sites which still do not take JIPS, JANET/Internet gateways
- exist allowing access to Internet File transfer and Telnet.
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- Alan Greig Janet: Alan@UK.AC.DUNDEE-TECH
- Dundee Institute of Technology Internet: Alan@DCT.AC.UK
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