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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!tfs.com!julian From: julian@TFS.COM (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: SLIP difficulties Message-ID: <CGpK1o.LoK@tfs.com> Sender: usenet@tfs.com Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA References: <1993Nov17.130816.6937@alw.nih.gov> <1993Nov18.171925.6649@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1993 22:05:48 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1993Nov18.171925.6649@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, >The connection looks like this: > >localhost -- modem ----- modem -- terminal server -- Ethernet -- remotehost > >where the SLIP connection is established between localhost and remotehost. > [..] >Hmmm, this brings up a question I just thought of... Is telnet transparent to the >data stream between the terminal server and remotehost? If not, by default, is >there any way to overcome this?. well, you would probably be better running ppp which can be configured easier to 'escape out' control characters etc. It's more designed to run ocross lousy non-transparrent lines than slip is which requires more transparency. > >Any ideas? > >--- note that FreeBSD cannot (at this time) run slip/ppp over a pty due to a little problem in the pty code, but it should be able to run at the modem end of things fine.. I plan to use this scheme myself with ppp and had it 'sort of' running with 386bsd (but will eventually have to fix FreeBSD) >Todd Pfaff \ Internet: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca >Dept. of Mechanical Engineering \ Voice: (905) 525-9140 x22902 >McMaster University \ FAX: (905) 572-7944 >Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L7 \ > julian (julian@tfs.com) >