From: davesimp@soda.berkeley.edu (David Simpson) Subject: Re: [Q] KA9Q Setup? Internet Link? Date: 27 Apr 1993 03:07:08 GMT
>I asked about hooking my Linux machine up to the Internet through a dial-in
>line before. I was told that SLIP for Linux didn't exist yet and that I shoul
>look into Ka9q. Well, I did. Ka9q looks to me like a user interface. One of
>the files even looks as though it needs to call CSLIP. There is also a
>ka9qbin.tar.Z and a ka9qsrc.tar.Z on the FTP sites. Which one do I need?
>Both? Perhaps this would be clear to me if I had both files. At any rate, le
>me know. I'm anxious to get this going.
The src file is the source that you would need to compile. The bin is already
compiled and ready to go, only I don't know how old the binary is, and if it
has been broken by any new patches.
As for ka9q being a user interface... it does run cslip and slip protocols.
However, it is a stand-alone program, and I don't know how robust it is.
Has anyone mounted an nfs drive under it?
Personally, I configured it and ran it once (with a 2400 baud modem... too
slow) just to see if it would work. Sure enough, I could ping my Linux
box from a remote account and telnet directly out of my Linux box to a
remote account. However, for my needs, kermit works just fine. :)
However, my campus just installed 90 14.4k high speed modems. With USR
Sportsters selling for way cheap, I might get more interested in a full
SLIP (or PPP) implementation in the kernel itself. BTW, who ever is in
that group, how's the progress coming?
Hope this helps,
Dave
davesimp@soda.berkeley.edu