From: jeells@cs.washington.edu (Jarod Eells) Subject: Re: Addressing for the Unaddressable... Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 18:28:05 GMT
In article <1c9cblINN62@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu writes:
>
>Lots of us Linux'rs have either direct or dial-up access to a user-account
>There's one big problem: Addresses.
>
>Why not set it up on a *PORT* of the machine we've got user access to?
>Every MUD and MUSH out there is set up in a similar manner. For example,
>I might decide to hang my Linux-box off of TCP/IP port 9876. Then Joe
>Schmoe could do a 'telnet ee.uwm.edu 9876' and find himself at the
>"discus login:" prompt on my Linux-box!
Question: Can any user set up a mud or does one have to be root on the
dialin system to set up the mud?
If this is so then that would put a damper on many systems with
iron-clad access restrictions (read most universities).
>
>Having no legitimate address would be a disadvantage, of course... but we
>could run some sort of interface program such that our Linux-box logs onto
>our user account (automatically?) and executes an interface application
>that would allow a SLIP-like connection through tty0 (the tty through
>which it logged onto the user account).
>
SLIP would be wonderful as it would allow background downloads at night.
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