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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP semi-tunneling Date: 3 Jul 1996 06:35:12 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4rd4b0$fnm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qkrss$19r@anorak.coverform.lan> <4qt61r$dkd@symiserver2.symantec.com> <4r54vj$16s@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > : Yes, you can use UUCP which can pass news and e-mail. > > Hmmm, it would solve my problems, but has two drawbacks. My connection > wouldn't be transparent and I know (and am not that interested in finding > out) very little about uucp. You can use UUCP over TCP. You still benefit from the well-settled spool scenario, but keep the transparent connection. Setting up Taylor UUCP is a matter of half an hour, perhaps less if your only concern is to run it over TCP (so you don't have modem handling). I'm also connected as a dialup site, and i wouldn't give up UUCP for the actual transports. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)