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re: Internet "PayPhones"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Thu Jan 27 10:50:14 1994

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 09:48:46 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)

>Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@eu.net> wrote:
>
>To some extent, yes, but I'm not sure 'relegated back' is a fair
>description of what we've done; we have actually addressed a
>need which many travellers have.  What we'd need for something
>else than a cmd-line is genuine mobile IP, which isn't here yet.

Interesting point. But why not use dynamic IP address assignment on the
dialin routers that your mobile users call in to?

>However, we deliberately made the POPs 8bit clean, meaning that
>adventurous users can run whatever protocol they want on top of
>the telnet session.
>

This is an interesting concept: I've heard references to running PPP over a
telnet session running on an async dialup connection. Do you have any
experience with attempting this?

Larry


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