Remote connection to Internet

[Gregory Fedor]

I don't know if this belongs in this group, but my question does involve a
Sun so I thought I'd start here.  A user here regularly communicates with
a colleague who has a Sun SPARCstation.  They've been using the good-ole
US-Mail-Net (ie. mailing tapes back and forth).  This is due to the lack
of Internet connectivity on the part of his colleague.

We here at Lewis have Internet access, so I'm not sure what's involved in
getting set up on it (I just request IP addresses from our local Network
people).

The remote colleague is working out of his home and therefore probably
can't go the route of getting routers/bridges etc.  Is there a way given a
modem connection that he can gain IP access to do things like FTP and
Telnet?

[[Ed's Note: Your best bet is SLIP over high speed modems. I haven't done
this myself, so I'll turn additional commentary over to someone more
knowledgeable. :) -bdg]]

Is UUCP something to look at in this instance?  If so, what should be
looked at?

[[Ed's Note: UUCP doesn't require Internet access and it would give you
the ability to send file (either using uusend or by encapsulating in
mail), however, FTP, telnet, and anything else that needs a real
connection wouldn't be usable. -bdg]]

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