From: wolfe@wolves.uucp (G. Wolfe Woodbury) Subject: Re: Addressing for the Unaddressable... Date: 28 Oct 1992 07:36:54 GMT
In article <1c9cblINN62@uwm.edu> rick@ee.uwm.edu writes:
>*** For readers on "alt.mud": Linux is a free UN*X clone for IBM-PC's. ***
>
>Lots of us Linux'rs have either direct or dial-up access to a user-account
>on an Internet-connected machine (be it at a university or at work). Of
>course we'd like to get "hooked up" to the rest of the Internet, right?
>There's one big problem: Addresses.
>
>For most of us, a 'real' IP number means $200/year plus long-distance fees.
>(Not to mention the initial cost for a better modem!) But this is where
>my idea comes in... Why not do it THROUGH OUR *USER* ACCOUNTS?
Technically possible? Yep. But the administrative hassles of that,
and the general sorts of rules that I've seen on some of the networks
might make it generally impossible.
SLIP andor PPP can be set up relatively easily on almost any machine
that has a halfway decent TCP/IP implementation. And if you have the
user account, most of the networks around should have a spare IP number
or two for use.
There are, however, some other methods available. Except for
interactive access, most of the services can be handled by proper
application of email messages! There is an Amiga network that uses
plain email, with text encoded packets, to create a virtual but
low-speed network to any place that has email access! Adapting that
should not take too much of a hassle.
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