From: josh@intercon.com (Joshua A. Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: SLIP Connections
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:48:06 GMT
Reply-To: josh@intercon.com (Joshua A. Cole)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation


 Scott-

As a stated policy, InterCon Technical Support will not simply "give up" if a 
customer is having difficulty. We will, as much as we possibly can, help the 
customer get their problem solved. We cannot, however, always help the 
customer with every aspect of the problem. Many times we will need to set-up 
a conference call between ourselves, the customer and another vendor; in this 
case, Telebit.

If you are continuing to have difficulties with TCP/Connect II's SLIP 
capabilities, please feel free to contact technical support at 703-709-9890 
ext. 230. I am in from 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Eastern Time, so if you call during 
that time period and request to speak with me, I'll be more than happy to 
help you.

Regards,
Joshua Cole
Technical Support Engineer
InterCon Systems Corporation
Herndon, VA


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> From: chapman@centerline.com (Scott Chapman, (Scott Chapman x233))
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
> Subject: SLIP Connections
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> Date: 3 Apr 92 16:06:55 GMT
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> I have been trying (for some time) to establish a SLIP connection
> from my Mac (at home) to my SparcStation (at work) over a modem
> connection (current 2400 baud, soon to be 14.4K). I have tried
> using several packages which apparently should help in establishing
> such a connection, but I am having difficulties. Could someone
> help me out?? Thanks in advance. Here is some more info on what we have
> tried and what we are using:
> 
> I seem to be having some trouble with TCP Connect II 
> (version 1.0.9).  I can establish a connection to our
> Netblazer and get the "packet mode enabled" message.
> After closing this window I open up a telnet window.
> A prompt comes up and simple commands work.  As soon as
> I type a command that produces more that a hundred
> bytes of output the connection hangs.  /bin/date works
> just fine but 'ls -l /' hangs the connection.  I see 
> the RX light come on for 10 secs or so and then it
> stops.  Nothing appears in the window.  The ftp window
> does the same thing.  It starts out OK but when displaying
> the contents of a large directory it freezes.
> 
> Other details:
>   - other connections (zterm, maclayers, ...) work fine.  
>     (same modems, mac, netblazer, unix host, ...)
>   - The unix host can ping the mac non-stop.
>   - New telnet & ftp sessions startup OK but hang shortly 
>     after that.
>   - I am using a Hayes smartmodem 2400
>   - The mtu value has been tried at 1006, 512, 256 & 64
>     (Infocon said to try 256 and when that did not work
>      they gave up)
>      
> Any clues or tips from other TCP Connect II users would
> be appricated.
> 
> By the way, we tried "NCSA Telent 2.3 + slip" and it just
> looks like regular telnet.  No slip.  The docs looked like
> generic NCSA Telnet 2.3, no mention of how to dialup and
> activate a slip connection.
>  
> 
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