SLIP for IRIX ???

[Jack P. Weldon]

In article <9007132225.AA11860 at mcirps2.med.nyu.edu> root at MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
>
>I am interested in moving my iris to my apartment, accross the street
>from the medical center, but I don't want to give up my network connection.
>
>Is there a version of serial tcp, as I understand, called SLIP
>known to run on an iris ?. I want to put it a pair of wires to home,
>and run a serial connection at 56,000 baud sync (with some old modems here)
>between my home iris and power server at the lab.
>

Well, if you want to try to configure SLIP with "unknown quality" modems
(no slur intended) but you may be in for a ride. My suggestion is that
you could setup SLIP with a couple of good Hayes 2400s/Hayes-compatibles
(must be *good compatibility) or get a couple of Telebit T2500s. You can 
get them through UUNET at pretty good prices. 

If it were my choice, I'd go with the Telebit T2500. The fix-hayes and 
fix-telebit scripts to setup the modems are included in the uucp subsystem.

Here is a copy of a posting from another (unknown) newsgroup that I saved.
Compare these prices with those from your local sources:


>Effective June 18, 1990 (when we get back from USENIX) "UUNET" will
>sell modems to the general public in addition to its members. Modem
>sales will be through the related for profit "UUNET Technologies, Inc".
>(The for profit corporation is needed for non-member sales).
>
>The prices for both members and non-members will be:
        T1000   $529
        T1500   $729
        Plus    $765
        T2000   $799
        T2500   $899

>Note that a T2000 is NOT a plus. Its a Plus with SDLC support.
>
>Sales to non members require prepayment or COD. Everything is in
>stock except for the T2000, which no one as ever ordered from us.
>Non stock items generally ship within 30 days of order.
>
>We charge $10 shipping per modem.
>
>UUNET Technologies, Inc.
>3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570
>Falls Church, VA 22042 USA
>+1 703 876 5050 (voice)
>+1 703 876 5059 (fax)
>info at uunet.uu.net

Cheers, 
			        	
Jack P. Weldon
(jweldon at sgi.com)