[geeks] How low can you go...

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Sun Mar 18 16:41:32 CDT 2007


On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:59:53 +0200
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com> wrote:

> There is also SLIRP, which lets you set up a SLIP server in userspace.
Ahhh, SLIRP. I used that a lot about 15 years ago when real IP access to
The Net from at home was very, very expensive. We dailed into our AIX
shell accounts at uni-kl, started SLIRP... with OS/2 on our PeeCees...

To have (nearly free) IP connectivity at home was a privilege at that
time.
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       Jochen

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