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- From: balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian A. Levine)
- Subject: Re: Any SLIP software for MacTCP?
- References: <mckay.727559192@cambridge> <C17zyq.KKK@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <wilde-220193201513@sunset.cs.colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:39:20 GMT
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- wilde@cs.colorado.edu (Nick Wilde) writes:
-
- >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..)
-
- >------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Nick Wilde | "The truth is rarely pure and
- > wilde@cs.colorado.edu | never simple" - Oscar Wilde
-
-
- Nick is entirely correct. (I included everything in this followup just
- to set the record straight.)
-
- I completely forgot about the MacSLIP icon within MacTCP because I
- haven't looked at it again since initially setting things up!
-
- --Brian
- --
- Brian A. Levine
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