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In article <1992Aug17.203615.6630@hellgate.utah.edu>,
mshields%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Michael S Shields) wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the replies everyone has given.  It seems I need to somehow get a 
> TCP/IP connection to my Unix box and run SLIP to use a newsreader
> 
> Now, this is my setup(normally). 
> I dial into my school's Unix machine using Zterm, and then use rn to access 
> the newsgroups.  This is over a 2400baud modem connection.
> 
> Here's my question.  
> Can I use MacTCP and MacSLIP to connect to my school's computer to use a 
> newsreader over the phone lines??  What I mean, is this a simple case of me 
> having the correct software on _my_ side of the connection, or is there 
> something that has to be on the Unix side also.

You need a special box on your campus internet called a "terminal server".
At NU we have a big Cisco terminal server. It's connected to a large modem
pool on one side, and to a campus backbone Ethernet network on the other
side. The terminal server is configured to support SLIP dialup from any
kind of host - Macs, PCs, or whatever.

It is also possible to support SLIP by attaching one or more modems to a
UNIX host and running appropriate software on the UNIX host. 

You will have to ask your local campus computing organization whether they
provide SLIP access, and if so, how.

John Norstad
Academic Computing and Network Services
Northwestern University
j-norstad@nwu.edu