🚀 go-pugleaf

    Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:13 EST
    From: Kent M Pitman <pitman@world.std.com>

    Does anyone profess to know how to get a standalone MacIvory with a
    modem to do SLIP or PPP that can connect to a public service provider?

I do this with my home MacIvory (sadly a Model II).

    I can do the part at the public service provider end.  I just need to
    know what network software I need to run, where to get it (and if it
    costs, how much), and what security exposure it creates.

You need the serial-networks system.  This is a separately loaded system with
8.3, I believe. Once it is loaded, you can do SLIP and CSLIP.  (Nobody ever
did PPP support, it's on my list, however.)

    Ideally I'd like to have the Mac side NOT net-accessible at all except
    indirect through the LispM, and to have my LispM not accept incoming
    services, just allowing me outgoing FTP, TELNET, and other TCP
    services I initiate.

If you don't enable the services, the outside world can't use them.  The
easiest ways to automatically not enable services are 

 1) boot a distribution world and set site to your site
 2) edit the namespace to make the machine a server machine, in which case
    it doesn't automatically enable services at boot time.

     --Kent (pitman@world.std.com)