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- From: brian@SJF.Novell.COM (Brian Meek)
- Subject: Re: Dialup SLIP software for PCs?
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- References: <2b286ec7.2d55@lhn.gns.cri.nz> <1992Dec12.111102.19923@newstand.syr.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:06:24 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec12.111102.19923@newstand.syr.edu> cychiu@rodan.acs.syr.
- edu (Chien-yuan Chiu) writes:>In article <2b286ec7.2d55@lhn.gns.cri.nz>
- mdlcpgs@lhn.gns.cri.nz writes:>>I cant find an FAQ for this so perhaps
- someone can answer. I am>>looking for TCP implementation for PCs that will
- allow a dial-up>>SLIP connection to an Internet host. Have a LAN that needs
- Internet>>access but cant at this stage get a dedicated line.
- >>
- >>The LAN is Lan Manager 2.1 and uses Microsoft Mail. Can these be used
- >>to set it up?
- >> Thanks, Phil
- >
- >Me too!
-
- I'm not sure that the Phil really wants a PC-based slip implementation
- as an automatic-dialup IP router for all of the users of the LAN.
-
- A number of different choices are open to you here. If there's a UNIX box
- handy on the local side, check out Morningstar's offerings...
- ftp.morninstar.com archives docs about PPP and SLIP, and a demo version for
- most flavors of UNIX. A good PC-based solution is the NetWare MultiProtocol
- Router with the WAN Links option (though the support for async lines isn't
- quite done yet), and I've used the Telebit NetBlazer in a very happy way to
- accomplish this as well. With the dialup router approach, Internet access
- from all nodes is available and it will run with your existing IP
- implementation.
-
- If a PC workstation-based SLIP implementation is really the way to go,
- Jason Leavitt wrote a timely article that can be found in a recent issue of
- Open Systems Today that describes 4 commercial offerings that provide for
- what you're after. A technology that seems to be coming rapidly more
- popular. The one I'm most familiar with of course is ours :-), and because
- it's made by Novell, you might not consider it for use in a LAN Manager site
- unless I described how it would work. So here goes...
-
- The v4.1 release of LAN WorkPlace for DOS can support up to 4 IP
- interfaces, one of which can be an ODI driver that comes in the box and
- provides automatic async dialup connection establishment for SLIP, CSLIP or
- PPP links. In the LAN Manager scenario, it looks something like this:
-
- FTP/TELNET/etc LAN Mananger Client
- -------------- -------------------
- Novell TCP/IP MS NetBEUI
- | | |
- | | ODINSUP v1.21 (an NDIS adapter)
- -----------------------------------------------------
- | | ODI Link Support Layer
- | | |
- -----------------------------------------------------
- | ------ODI Link Driver (3C503.COM, whatever)
- SLIP_PPP.COM |
- | LAN Adapter
- COM?: |
- | Ethernet/Token-Ring (TCP/IP & NetBEUI)
- |
- Modem ---> Internet
-
- Here, most IP connections might be to hosts on the local Ethernet, but
- when an IP packet is destined for an Internet host, the SLIP_PPP driver
- can dial the phone, establish the SLIP or PPP connection and make the
- connection. LAN Mananger runs uninterrupted over NetBEUI, or it can be
- run over the Novell RFC NetBIOS of LAN WorkPlace.
-
- -- brian
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Brian Meek Novell, Inc. -- Desktop Systems Group
- Internet mail: brian@Novell.COM
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