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- From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
- Subject: Re: interNet via modem
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- Organization: Comp Sci, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
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- References: <hrpdko.44@pnv.palm.cri.nz> <1h3ks2INNb6r@golem.wcc.govt.nz> <hrpdko.45@pnv.palm.cri.nz>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:51:31 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In <hrpdko.45@pnv.palm.cri.nz> news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:
-
- Oh no!! The news@massey.ac.nz disease has spread to sites outside Massey
- University :-)
-
- >How can you connect to internet via a modem? Can it be done? What software/
- >hardware do you need? BTW my concept of internet is FTP+news.
-
- Presumably you mean more than the trivial use of a modem and terminal at home
- to dial your work's computers or some other public access site (such
- as actrix.gen.nz or kosmos.wcc.govt.nz in Wellington, kcbbs.gen.nz in
- Auckland, equinox.gen.nz in Christchurch, etc)?
-
- Assuming you want to connect a home computer to the Internet so you can
- ftp directly to/from that machine, the answer is "most likely, depending
- on what OS (UNIX, DOS, Amiga-whatever) it is running". Firstly, You will
- need TCP/IP software that supports SLIP (serial line IP), or the newer PPP
- (Point to Point Protocol) running on your local machine.
-
- Many UNIX varient's come with SLIP built in to the Kernel, or available as
- an add-on -- consult your vendor. PPP hasn't been around as long so
- I'm not sure if there are any products supporting it yet (the implementations
- I am aware of are in source form and require the availability of kernel source
- code).
-
- For DOS (and perhaps other systems?) there is a freely available (for
- non-commercial use) system written by Phil Karn called KA9Q which is an
- implementation of TCP/IP that includes SLIP and PPP. Check out the VUW
- Comp Sci archives (although I don't know if the copy there is the latest
- version. There are also a number of commercial products (such as FTP
- Software's PC/TCP) that also supports SLIP and possibly PPP.
-
- You will also require the remote end to have something (a general purpose
- computer, or perhaps a router or terminal server) speaking the same
- protocol (SLIP or PPP) that you can connect to. Since you are going to
- require the cooperation of the sys-admin of that site to set things up
- (allocation of IP addresses, network routing tables, domain name system,
- etc) you should speak to that person for more advice on how to proceed.
-
- Disclaimer: The above may contain a number of inaccuracies -- I've never
- actually tried to do this, the above suggestions are simply based on
- stuff that I have gleaned from working with IP networks, and reading the
- Net over the years.
-
- Duncan
-