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Dial-back SLIP ?


Article: 7828 of alt.hackers
From: smantler@atpibm6000.tuwien.ac.at (Stephan Mantler)
Newsgroups: alt.hackers
Subject: Dial-back SLIP ?
Date: 17 May 1995 11:56:44 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Hi again,

trying to set up the following:

university's Ethernet  ---------+-------
                                |
                                o RS/6000 (fixed IP on Ethernet)
                                }
                                { phone line (SLIP/PPP)
                                }
                                o home (no IP yet)
                                |
home Ethernet     --------------+-----

the idea is to let the RS/6000 call back (phone cost...) for slip.
now, the initiation is obvious: call from home, start a batch job that
waits one minute and then dials back... but: what IP should home have?
should it be on the same subnet as the RS/6000, or is it better to create
an own domain for home?

Thanks for your time,
-Stephan

ObNeXTStepHack:
OmniWeb, a rather good W3 browser for NeXTstep, has been installed here with
a one-user license. With 40+ machines, you can't always fire it up when you'd
like to. However, it's licensing procedure is rather dumb - also showing the
code for the existing lincense. so: re-enter the lincense code, as soon as it
complains about the existing license, it's open... fire up any URL you want,
ignoring the window, then click 'ok' and you're done.





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