From: SMTP%"cmu-openvms-ip@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU" 22-DEC-1994 09:18:57.51 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: How to SLIP into VMS ? Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 17:08:09 +0600 From: Tom Allebrandi Subject: Re: How to SLIP into VMS ? Sender: tom@popmail.mcs.com To: ae@radfys.ks.se (Anders Ekl\vf), cmu-openvms-ip@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Errors-to: cmu-openvms-ip-errors@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Reply-to: cmu-openvms-ip@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Message-id: Organization: TA Software Systems MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal >Here is what I want to be able to do (and a few other people at my job !): >Login from home (Macintosh with InterSLIP) via modem and (if possible) a >terminal server (VCP-1000) to a (possibly dedicated) SLIP account on the >VAX. The server supports both LAT and TCP/IP. Then run Gopher, Mosaic, >newsreaders and such on our Macs. Have you looked at what your terminal server can do? It's been a long time since I looked at the TCP/IP support in the VCP-1000 so I don't remember what is and isn't there. If you had Xyplex terminal servers, you could have the terminal server behave as your SLIP server. That is, once you connect to the terminal server you issue some commands and it magically becomes the remote end of your SLIP connection. I know that this works because I helped some friends set their Xyplex 1600's to do this. This is not a Xyplex sales pitch... Xyplex and Datability compete heavily (at least here in the US). I would be surprized to find that Xyplex has a feature (dial in SLIP support) that Datability does not. (On the other hand, maybe I wouldn't be surprized since I am the one who chose the Xyplex's over the Datability's at the place noted above.... :-) As to having the VAX being the SLIP server, my guess is that you could try to create an LTA device under VMS and make it available as a service which could be reached from the terminal server. When you start CMUIP, you would give the LTA device name as the terminal line to use for SLIP. I have no idea if this would work, but that is how I would go at it. One thing to remember, I think SLIP is an 8 bit protocol. This means that if you use a line into a terminal server for SLIP you will need to set it in 8 bit binary mode. Otherwise, any magic characters you have programmed in the server (such as Control-F and Control-B for next and previous session) will be interpreted by the terminal server and not passed to the SLIP server. I have done something similar to what I describe for running DECUS UUCP with the modem connected to a terminal server. In this case, we basically "hard wired" one of the ports on the server directly to the VAX. I can dig up the setups for that if you want to see it to use as a guide to attacking the SLIP setup. --- Tom Tom Allebrandi Tom@Tass.Com TA Software Systems Tom@Mcs.Com Valparaiso, IN 219-465-0108