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- From: wilde@cs.colorado.edu (Nick Wilde)
- Subject: Re: Any SLIP software for MacTCP?
- Message-ID: <wilde-220193201513@sunset.cs.colorado.edu>
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- References: <mckay.727559192@cambridge> <C17zyq.KKK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:24:36 GMT
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- In article <C17zyq.KKK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian
- A. Levine) wrote:
- >
- > mckay@cambridge (Kyle McKay) writes:
- >
- > .....
- > >I'm trying to do dial-up slip internet access. Ideally the slip software
- > >would place another icon in the MacTCP control panel (in addition to the
- > >EtherTalk and Local ones) allowing you to choose slip as the transport.
- >
- > >The dial-in access that I can use requires the SLIP implementation to
- > >determine its IP address from a string passed back during the initial
- > >connection--I understand this is in the SLIP protocol spec, but not
- > >always implemented.
- > .....
- >
- > >Kyle McKay
- > >mckay@mitchell.com
- >
- >
- > MacSLIP is an option. However, it doesn't present its own icon from
- > within MacTCP. It is an entirely separate control panel. It can
- > probably determine its IP address using the "set" and the "ipfind"
- > commands from within a script. (I haven't tried these commands because
- > we're using hard IP numbers right now.)
-
- Huh ? (Scratchs his head in wonder, goes rummaging for the mouse to
- bring up the MacTCP control panel). It sure does "present its own
- icon with MacTCP" - a least the copy I'm using right at this moment
- does ! Sure it has its own control panel - but that's to set up the
- SLIP side of things - what number to dial, what modem parameter's to
- use, etc. Once you've got a slip connection going, you're Mac still
- has to know where to go for TCP communications - that's where the
- Icon in the MacTCP control panel comes in - its say's "look here,
- not at Ethertalk or LocalTalk".. At least as far as I understand the
- process - I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong :)
-
- Even though I don't understand the Magic it works for me, I hasten to
- add that MacSLIP is probably one of the best $50 I've ever spent
- on software. Reliable, simple, and trouble free, I've been SLIP'ing
- to work for probably close to a year now.
-
- Good stuff, that MacSLIP.
-
- >
- > Hyde Park Software
- > P.O. Box 7133
- > Austin, TX 78713
- > Internet: info@hydepark.com
- > Voice: (512) 454-1170
-
- -Nick
- (MacSLIP'ing in from home..)
-
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- wilde@cs.colorado.edu | never simple" - Oscar Wilde
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