[2264] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
SLIPing Questions and Answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Shein)
Mon Feb 3 14:50:38 1992
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 14:45:02 -0500
From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
To: brian@lloyd.com
Cc: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Brian Lloyd's message of Mon, 3 Feb 92 11:13:25 PST <9202031913.AA19791@ray.lloyd.com>
>From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd)
> I think they should have telnet, but it's not very representative of
> what they might be doing.
>
>Then what good is a terminal server? Dial-up or dedicated lines that
>support IP/TCP for FTP, NNTP, and other applications makes sense.
>Terminal servers do not.
My proposal was to tie the sites into a centrally administered site (I
assume one of several satellite sites) which supports things like FTP,
NNTP etc for them.
-Barry Shein
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