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From: Lester_Weiss@bmug.org
Organization: BMUG, Inc.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 00:37:51 PST
Subject: Re: PPP/SLIP for the Mac

This is the info I have so far...

  How can I connect my Macintosh to the campus network using SLIP
(Serial Line Internet Protocol)?

Summary:

  To use SLIP from a Macintosh, you will need these four pieces:

  (1) MacTCP software on your Macintosh.
  (2) A modem or other physical link (such as a leased line)
      to your workstation on campus.
  (3) SLIP software for your Macintosh.  There are currently at least
      three low-cost (~$50) commercial software packages available.
  (4) SLIP server software for your workstation on campus, available
      from some anonymous ftp sites.

Response:

  To use SLIP from a Macintosh, you'll need the following.

  (1) A properly installed copy of MacTCP on your remote Macintosh.

  (2) A modem (or other physical link to your workstation on campus, such
as a leased line) for your remote Macintosh.  If you are using a modem,
you'll also need a compatible modem on the workstation end.

  (3) SLIP software.  There are at least three commercial SLIP packages
for the Macintosh available.  These add the SLIP LAP (link access protocol)
to MacTCP, and typically consist of a SLIP LAP file and one or more
control panel files and/or application programs that are used to configure
the SLIP connection.  After installing one of these software packages,
you then select the access protocol in the MacTCP control panel:

    (a) VersaTilities ($47.50 educational discount price, $99.00 list
        price in single quantities).  Includes other TCP/IP tools,
        including an FTP client and server and a time synchronization server.

        (The VersaTilities package, including SLIP support, is also
        bundled with the latest versions of the VersaTerm and
        VersaTerm-PRO terminal emulation applications.  The educational
        discount price for VersaTerm 4.6.2 or later [the first version
        to include SLIP support] is $50, with a list price of $149.)

        Synergy Software
        2457 Perkiomen Ave.
        Reading, PA 19606
        (215) 779-0522
        FAX: (215) 370-0548
        email: d2296@applelink.apple.com

    (b) MacSLIP ($49.95 per copy in single quantities, plus shipping
        and sales tax)

        TriSoft
        1825 East 38 1/2
        Austin, Texas 78722
        Sales: (800) 531-5170
        Support and Info: (512) 472-0744
        FAX: (512) 473-2122
        email (for questions): info@hydepark.com

    (c) InterSLIP (name? price?)

        InterCon Systems Corp.
        (703) 709-9890
        FAX: (703) 709-9896
        help@intercon.com

        Clint Heiden, Western Regional Sales for InterCon
        (703) 709-9890 x223
        clint@intercon.com

  (4) A SLIP server for your UNIX workstation.  There is currently
no central support for SLIP access to campus computers, so you will
to set up the SLIP server on your own UNIX system.  In addition, we do
not yet have much experience with doing this, so you are pretty much on
your own for now.

  Some possible sources for this software are listed below.  (These
anonymous ftp addresses have not been verified.)

  The best way to start out is to check out:

Anonymoug ftp to ftp.bio.indiana.edu, directory util/slip/ for:

-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff       38679 May  7 21:19 100149-03.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff      271573 May  7 21:19 cslipbeta.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff      102751 May 24 16:44 csn-slip-package.tar.Z
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff        1365 May 30 13:57 free-slip-and-ppp
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff        8504 May 30 13:56 macslip.review
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff        6089 May 30 13:57 slip.server.howto
-rw-r--r--  1 gilbertd staff      758593 May  7 21:29 slipware.tar.Z

  The "slip.server.howto" file is especially helpful.

  Other UNIX SLIP software sources include:

ftp.ee.lbl.gov:cslipbeta.tar.Z
        header-compressed SLIP for Suns and perhaps other stuff

icarus.riacs.edu:pub/slip/*
        various SLIP stuff for Suns and others

tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/ppp/ppp-sparc4.1.tar.Z
        STREAMS-based header-compressed PPP [Point to Point Protocol]
        for SunOS 4

ftp.uu.net:networking/ip/slip/sun/...
   102751 Aug 22  1991 csn-slip-package.tar.Z  < contains slip-4.1
    26148 Oct 31  1989 slip-4.0.tar.Z   < useable, see also cslip version
    [as well as SLIP support for additional hardware in networking/ip/slip]

ftp.uu.net:networking/ip/slip/cslip/...
   271573 Apr  3  1990 cslipbeta.tar.Z  < usable, slip-4.1 may be better

According to Steve Dorner:
 "The Morningstar manual for their PPP/SLIP software is available
 freely for ftp at morningstar.com.  It contains information I needed
 to set up a slip server that I could not find in any of the free
 SLIP packages."
 See morningstar.com:/pub/ppp/ppp-1.3-doc.shar.Z
                        and      /pub/ppp/Free-SLIP-and-PPP

Hope it helps...---


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