slirp - 'fakes' a slip account though a shell dial-up account.
I think it also might be able to also ppp. The coolest thing
about is it can do some funky load balnceing tricks.
You can ussually find it on ftp sites, no I dont have any
off hand. I know that it was on the older slackware dis,
but not sure about this newer ones. Do a search in
excite.com and there are alot of sites that deal with it
>
> At 09:08 AM 12/16/98 -0800, Ken Schweigert wrote:
> [deleted]
> >The internet server I'm using is the one from our local college and
> >I've been told that everyone has a "Unix shell account" and not a
> >regular ppp. If I use minicom, I can connect and use Lynx to surf
> >around, but when I try to d/l Netscape, it d/l's to my directory on
> >the Unix box. I've tried to ftp the server to get these files, but
> >must not be doing something correctly.
> >
> >My question is: is there something that will connect me directly to
> >this shell account so I can transfer straight to this box??
> [rest deleted]
>
> If you only have a shell connection, it will not support an ftp link between
> your Linux box and the school server. To download software (from your user
> area on the school server to your Linux box), you will need to fall back on
> zmodem transfers. It's been years since I did one, but I think the relevant
> commands are sz (on the sending side) and rz (on the receiving side). My
> Linux host (Slackware 3.4) does have man pages for these commands; if yours
> does too, you might see if that will help. (The school's server will need to
> run the sz command while your client runs rz.) Also look into kermit.
>
> I also vaguely recall an app that would fake a slip-style (slip is the
> IP-over-modem-line protocol that preceded ppp) connection over a shell link.
> But I can't remember the details; sorry. You might look around for this, though.
>
> Unless you can get or fake a slip/ppp connection, downloading Netscape won't
> do you much good. It won't access remote sites over a shell connection. (It
> will let you look at html docs on your own host or LAN, though.)
>
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