Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 04:30:06 PDT
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TCP-Group Digest Thu, 26 Aug 93 Volume 93 : Issue 219
Today's Topics:
9.6KB radio mod question
FYI
IP encap under WAMPES
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 17:21:05 MDT
From: jr@upl.com (J.R. Westmoreland)
Subject: 9.6KB radio mod question
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
Does anyone know of a mod for the IC3200A dual band radio that will
allow me to connect a 9600 baud TNC?
A group here in the local area are going to go to 56KB sometime soon but there is some
discussion of waiting until next spring to make that change. How much expense would there be in
going to 9600 now and then going to 56KB later?
How expensive are the TNC equipment for 9600? It looks like 600 to 800 for the
56KB equipment.
Thanks,
J.R. Westmoreland (N7MFF)
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 15:25:22 EDT
From: crompton@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (D. Crompton)
Subject: FYI
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 93 17:16:17 MDT
From: jr@upl.com (J.R. Westmoreland)
Subject: IP encap under WAMPES
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
I have WAMPES running on my machine and I would like to use
ip encapsulation facility. Could someone tell me how to setup this facility?
I have a slip session connected to my machine on the internet and WAMPES
is running on the other serial port connected to the radio. I also have an ethernet interface in the machine.
SLIP addres: 131.219.36.1
AMPR.ORG address: 44.40.4.1
Ethernet address: 131.219.99.1
Is it possible to tell WAMPES to route to the other interfaces?
If so, How?
Thanks,
J.R. Westmoreland (N7MFF)
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 19:13:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Hauan <hauan@panix.com>
Subject: subscribe me
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu
Please add my name to the distribution list -- Thanks!
73 de Mike, kd2zo
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 22:32:11 +0200
From: wtpz2234@servus.rus.uni-stuttgart.de
Subject: Waaahh!!
To: mwestfal@silicon.csci.csusb.edu, tcp-group@ucsd.edu
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Forget the fax The Internet has gone
Corporate
Businesses are logging on to the communications
system in a big way. Move over, computer nerds.
By Carla Lazzareschi
LOS ANGELES TIMES
So what if it lacks the cachet of 90210? Who cares that the
neighborhood is still full of nerds? An address on the Internet is the
latest gotta-have status symbol in corporate America. Once the
hidden preserve of academics, scientists and defense contractors, the
Internet-that grand global network of computer networks--is now
the site of a cyberspace land rush, with businesses pouring onto the
system in something resembling a digital stampede.
In the process, the computing world's closest thing to a
countercultural stomping ground is being transformed into a
communications link for corporate America--much to the displeasure
of many longtime users. Thanks mostly to businesses, a system that
already reaches 15 million people worldwide is growing at the rate of
about a million a month. An estimated 6,S00 U.S. companies,
including more than half the Fortune 1,000, subscribe to
telecommunications services that give them an Internet mail drop,
and more companies are gaining full access all the time.
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Yesterday, the country's third-biggest cablecompany, Continental
Cablevision in Boston said it would become a pipeline for Internet.
Continental has 2.9 million subscribers. The rush for Internet access
has been so great in recent months that some companies, including
Miller Brewing Co. and retailer Nordstrom Inc., have reserved
Internet addresses for potential future use.
"Remember when a fax machine seemed an option? Now everyone
has one. The same holds true today for a corporate Internet address,"
says Christopher Locke, a software engineer and former editor of the
Internet Business Journal. "Companies that have no presence inthis
new arena will quickly fade from view" That may be hyperbole, but
there's no denying the growing importance of the Net or the broad
implications of its rising use. For any user with a personal computer
and a modem, the Internet offers cheap, global communications.
You can use it to send a fax to Finland or locate the works of Shake-
speare. You can talk to fellow orchid fanciers, find a fiance or
publish your memoirs. There are perhaps 4,500 special-interest
conferences-from autos to Unix, Anne Rice to Elvis. Electronic mail
on the Internet can be had for less than $10 amonth through a
commercial service. Individuals can get access to the whole system
for less than $20. Businesses, by contrast, pay from $1,000 to
$300,000 a year, depending on their type of connection and the
services they use.
Navigating the system isn't easy. Written by the computer literate tor
their own ilk, the required sequences of keyboard entries are arcane
and difficult. As a result, the Internet long remained out of the reach
of the uninitiated. But over the last three years, a few entrepreneurs
have made it easier for corporations and individuals to connect to
and find their way around the system. Businesses, many of them now
loaded with university graduates who obtained Internet addresses in
the 1980s, have responded enthusiastically. "The Internet is still a
long ways from being a resource for the masses says Vinton Cerf, the
computer scientist credited with developing the Net's technology.
"But it still is the closest thing we have to an advanced public-data
network."
Indeed, the Internet is a prototype for the so-called information high-
way touted by two of its more recent subscribers: President Clinton
and Vice President Gore. From its earliest days, no idea or creation
has been deemed too outlandish or extreme to be denied access. As a
result, the Net has attracted an eclectic community of subscribers
whose interests and pursuits range from cutting-edge medicine to
pornography, from nuclear arms to cartoons, from the latest stock
market maneuverings to the hottest nightclub in New York.
Along the way, the Internet has developed what has been described
as a "culture of remote intimacy," with users employing the system to
share work with far-flung colleagues, and with on-line discussion
groups chatting electronically about a mind-boggling array of
subjects. But with the stampede of corporate America, that culture is
shifting. Clashes have erupted between the Net's traditional
users--who-built the system based on trust and a mutual interest in
research--and businesses, for which the interest is more capitalistic.
To be sure, mundane electronic chitchat still accounts for most of the
network's traffic. But business subscribers increasingly turn to the
Net to handle some of their most critical corporate communications.
That the communications are so important points to what is perhaps
the largest single concern among corporate users--the security risk
posed by connecting their computers to public-data networks. Using
the Internet as an entry point, hackers have roamed through--and
sometimes vandalized--corporate databases. Even sophisticated "fire
wall" software used to seal off internal company computers from the
Internet isn't completely hacker-proof.
Equally vexing is the need to encrypt data transmissions to ensure
privacy during their brief electronic journey. That creates obstacles
for multinational companies operating in multiple foreign languages
and limited by strict export controls on American encryption
technology.
Finally as with any new communications medium, the complex legal
and ethical issues surrounding copyright ownership of materials
flowing across the Net's networks must be resolved.
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