Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans Subject: Re: UUCP Over TCP/IP (why?) Message-ID: <9996@e.ms.uky.edu> Date: 17 Jul 88 21:19:26 GMT References: <908@dsacg3.UUCP> <387@comdesign.UUCP> <4624@b-tech.UUCP> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Distribution: all Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 30 In article <4624@b-tech.UUCP> zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff) writes: >In article <387@comdesign.UUCP> pst@comdesign.uucp (Paul Traina) writes: >>Pardon my ignorance, but I'm confused about running uucp over TCP links. >> >>My only guess would be for folks running TCP terminal servers hooked into >>dial-in/dial-out modems .. the remote site dials into the modem, goes via >>tcp to the host, and runs uucp as if the modem was direct-connected to >>the host. um, it's also great for avoiding phone bills to call rutgers :-) >Given that I have modems and uucp and no tcp/ip connections (or >software), I want to send mail to a host that has tcp/ip connections >but no modems or serial ports. There is a annex terminal server that >can provide a modem/rlogin link. This seems like a common need for sites >with many machines networked together and only a few modems. You could ... 1. cook up a different protocol. Take the g protocol and have it not generate the "evil" characters and have a mapping scheme to allow all the characters to go through. 2. Find a host that's has both UUCP capabilities and TCP/IP connections to the host you want to send mail to. Use this host as a gateway. -- <---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy<---- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <---- What is this wet ... *stuff* ....... falling from the sky? <---- It stirs a vague memory of ... *something* ... but of what I do not know.