Newsgroups: bit.listserv.win3-l
Date:         Thu, 9 Apr 1992 10:09:50 EDT
From:         "Kris Beatty" <krisb@WESTFORD.CCUR.COM>
Subject:      Reply to Reply to Re: TELNET HOST for DOS

>>>>>> |Subj: TELNET HOST for DOS
>>>>>Drifter Chen
>>>>When you say FTP programs for DOS, do you mean actually running FTP on a PC?
>>>>If this is so, I would like to know where I can get them too.
>>>>                                         Scott Barnett
>>>>                                         pysrbarnett@cyber.widener.edu
>>>
>>>We have a program from Novell called Lan Workplace it gives you both a dos
>>>and windows version of Telnet & FTP with our site license it's $50 a pop.
>>>
>>>Bill Hillgartner billh@550sherb.lan.mcgill.ca
>>>
>>Do they have to be run on network or can they be run on a single PC over a
>>modem or something?  Thanks.
>>
>>Scott Barnett
>>pysrbarnett@cyber.widener.edu

>As far as I know, they have to be run on a network.

>Bill Hillgartner

Bill,
	Telnet and FTP have to run off the network. Companies are currently
working on a ftp format that will do ftp through a modem several that
come to mind (remember I haven't worked with the software, only heard
about it) and they are SLIP (Serial Line IP link (I think and it requires
additional hardware)) and PPP (Point to Point Protocol). Listed below are
some of the features of PPP and a ftp address to look at the software and
get more information from Jamey Laskey at Morning Star. I hope this helps
you.

Kris Beatty

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Morning Star PPP At A Glance                   (PPP version 1.3, March 3 1992)

Standards Support:
- - The Internet standard Point to Point Protocol (PPP), as defined in
  RFCs 1171 and 1172 and updated in the most recent drafts, providing
  - link-level error detection
  - asynchronous control character mapping
  - packet size negotiated at connection time
  - physical link loopback detection
  - IP address negotiation and assignment (Dec 1991 draft)
  - link-level authentication by PAP and CHAP (Dec 1991 draft)
  - PPP Address/Control field and Protocol field compression (Jan 1992 draft)
  - link status monitoring by LQM (Feb 1992 draft)
- - The popular Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP), as described in RFC 1055
  - automatically detects whether other end does TCP header compression (CSLIP)

Optimal Performance:
- - `VJ' TCP packet header compression as described in RFC 1144
- - TCP interactive `fast queue' management
- - Asynchronous speeds as high as <sys/ttydev.h> provides, usually 38400
- - Synchronous speeds to T1 (1.544 Mb/sec) or CEPT (2.048Mb/sec) using our

  SnapLink SCSI-attached serial interface

Ease of Management:
- - Easy and extremely flexible configuration
- - On-demand link establishment and idle line disconnection
- - Flexible `chat script' for connection management
- - Packet filtering and logging by protocol, source, destination, etc.
- - Flexible daemon implementation
- - Operates as either the remote (calling) or hub (answering) site
- - Uses most asynchronous modems or dedicated lines, using the workstation's
  native serial ports
- - Shares modems with other applications, such as UUCP, or interactive users
- - PPP configuration/negotiation problems reported in English
- - Monitors link status, reliability, and performance
- - Multiple line failover for redundancy and high availability
- - Thorough, readable documentation

Wide industry support:
- - Currently supported on
  - SPARC (Sun-4, SPARCstation, SPARCserver, Solbourne, Tatung, CompuAdd, ...)
  - Sun-3
  - NeXT
  - DECstation/Ultrix
  - SCO UNIX
- - Coming soon on
  - CDC MIPS EP/IX
  - IBM RS/6000
  - SCO Xenix
  - HP PA
  - Silicon Graphics Indigo
  - DG Aviion
  - VAXstation/Ultrix
  - BSDI on i386/i486
  - Interactive UNIX
- - Interoperates with network connectivity providers
  - PSI
  - AlterNet
  - BARRnet
  - OARnet
  - Merit
- - Interoperates with other asynchronous and synchronous PPPs and SLIPs
  - Telebit NetBlazer
  - FTP Software PC/TCP
  - cisco AGS and CGS
  - 3Com NetBuilder
  - Brixton Systems BrxPPP
  - KA9Q
  - Perkins/Clements/Fox/Christy free UNIX PPP
  - Xylogics Annex terminal server (SLIP)
  - ISC SLIP
  - Datability terminal server (SLIP)
  - Livingston terminal server (PPP)
  - cisco terminal server (SLIP)
  ? Intercon TCP/Connect II (SLIP)
  ? Marble Associates SLIP
  ? Wellfleet
  ? Proteon
  ? NCSA
  ? CSnet/BBN DialupIP
  ? Xyplex terminal server

You can get all our marketing literature and the entire user guide via
anonymous FTP from ftp.uu.net:vendor/MorningStar/ppp/, in either
mst-ppp-user-guide.ps.Z (nicely formatted PostScript) or
mst-ppp-doc.shar.Z (shell archive of troff sources and more
configuration examples); or from ftp.morningstar.com:pub/ppp; or we'll
be happy to send them to you via electronic mail or even on paper.

	Morning Star Technologies
	1760 Zollinger Rd
	Columbus OH USA 43221
	+1 614 451 1883	(voice)
	+1 800 558 7827 (voice)
	+1 614 459 5054 (FAX)
	marketing@morningstar.com (e-mail)

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K. James Laskey	    jamey@MorningStar.Com
Sales Manager
Morning Star Technologies
+1 800 558 7827
+1 614 451 1883

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