[25568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI again removes services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Tue Oct 19 23:09:48 1999
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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 23:08:25 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19991019181525.01157508@odie.av8.com>; from Dean Anderson on Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:35:25AM -0400
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On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:35:25AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> Hmm. I always thought the unix tip command was a reference to tip and ring of phone line pairs. This sounds more likely... Something for Peter Salus...
>
> Around 12:36 PM 10/19/1999 -0700, rumor has it that hardie@equinix.com said:
> >> TAC as in tacacs?
> >
> >Yep. The original TACACS specification was in a BBN technical
> >memo, CC-0045; RFC 1492 contains an informal specification
> >of the extended version that Cisco implemented. The background
> >section of RFC 1492 gives a bit of the history:
> >
> >Background
> >
> > There used to be a network called ARPANET. This network consisted of
> > end nodes (hosts), routing nodes (IMPs) and links. There were (at
> > least) two types of IMPs: those that connected dedicated lines only
> > and those that could accept dial up lines. The latter were called
> > "TIPs."
i think TIP stood for Terminal Interface Processor, and IMP stood for
Interface Message Processor.
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Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York
