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There's a DOS program called TIA that's just recently come out that lets
a person with a dialup Unix shell account emulate a SLIP connection.  I
haven't tried it myself to see how it works, but it got me thinking:

Is there a way to use Linux to access a Unix shell account and emulate a
SLIP or PPP connection?   I'd be interested in doing that if it's
possible, but I'd rather use Linux than DOS to do it.

Thanks in advance for any answers, advice, etc.

: There's a DOS program called TIA that's just recently come out that lets
: a person with a dialup Unix shell account emulate a SLIP connection.  I
: haven't tried it myself to see how it works, but it got me thinking:

: Is there a way to use Linux to access a Unix shell account and emulate a
: SLIP or PPP connection?   I'd be interested in doing that if it's
: possible, but I'd rather use Linux than DOS to do it.

: Thanks in advance for any answers, advice, etc.

Take a look at Term and see if this is what you're after.

-- Gary F.

: Take a look at Term and see if this is what you're after.

OK, I did look over the docs and while this looks like it will do what I
want (ftp direct to my home machine rather than ftp then sz), do WWW with
Mosaic (the one that works with term), I'm wondering if it will keep most
of the load on my Linux box rather than at the dialup server's end.
Netcom has a daemon watching over its processes, and will autokill any
login that takes too many resources.  TIA is supposed to keep the load on
a server light, apparently, and I'm hoping term does this as well.

I will give term a shot tonight and see what happens.  Thanks.

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>There's a DOS program called TIA that's just recently come out that lets
>a person with a dialup Unix shell account emulate a SLIP connection.  I
>haven't tried it myself to see how it works, but it got me thinking:

>Is there a way to use Linux to access a Unix shell account and emulate a
>SLIP or PPP connection?   I'd be interested in doing that if it's
>possible, but I'd rather use Linux than DOS to do it.

>Thanks in advance for any answers, advice, etc.

Dave,
I've seen the ads for TIA (The Internet Adapter) also, and I'm fairly certain that the
software runs on the UNIX server and not on your DOS client.  You invoke it on the
server after logging on and it emulates a SLIP connection allowing you to run Mosaic,
telnet, etc. on your DOS/Windows machine.  I have a WWW web address somewhere for more
information on the product. Don't know if they are planning on introducing a Linux
compatible version or not
-Harrison  

        For more information on TIA, check out the URL
http://marketplace.com/0/tia/tiahome.html.  A short answer is,
yes, you should be able to use the standard Linux SLIP setup
to utilize TIA.

        [TIA works by accepting TCP and UDP packets from your
home machine, remapping the port numbers, and shooting them out
again from the host machine.  Standard client software will work
without modification.
        Since your shell account machine is acting as a proxy for
your home machine, any IP connections using standard services
have to originate from your machine.  You can't run an FTP server
on your TIA-connected machine, for example.  (Actually, TIA
could catch incoming requests for "ftp your-shell-account-host.com 8000"
and route them to your machine's FTP ports.  But the present
documentation doesn't mention this.)
        Very intereresting, and for $25/user, pretty cost-effective.
And it doesn't require interaction with your sysadmin, either.]

p.s.:  doesn't this sound like a redone TERM? [Rather more useful,
        though, since it's not limited to the Un*x environment.]

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Its called term.

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: I've seen the ads for TIA (The Internet Adapter) also, and I'm fairly certain that the
: software runs on the UNIX server and not on your DOS client.
:  Don't know if they are planning on introducing a Linux
: compatible version or not

        I sent mail to them about a Linux port, and they said
that a Linux port is about sixth on thier list of ports, and not
to hold my breath [my words].

-Sam

Quote:> : TIA (The Internet Adapter)
> I sent mail to them about a Linux port, and they said that a Linux
> port is about sixth on thier list of ports, and not to hold my breath
> [my words].

I'm not surprised, when you can use term, which is free.