Subj : [--- SLIP/PPP FTP ? ---]
To   : DAVE OLDRIDGE
From : wsmith
Date : Sun Sep 03 2000 10:08 pm

RE: [--- SLIP/PPP FTP ? ---]
BY: DAVE OLDRIDGE to WSMITH on Sun Sep 03 2000 18:39:00

 > PPP and SLIP are link layer protocols for connecting to an internet
 > service provider.  Your telnet, FTP, HTTP, etc. services then run over that
 > link layer.
 > 
 > What BBS are you trying to access?
 
I am trying to FTP to this one, "thecorral.tzo.com" 24.218.45.108
I am in a terminal program connected to a XyPlex server.
I was hoping that I could use FNOS to TIP to the server and then
issue FTP over the link layer?  I am attaching to the FNOS device 'pp0'.
FNOS TIP works fine.  FNOS FTP hangs in limbo.  I have no idea what I am
doing as I always used to rely -- in days gone by -- on FTP services on a
to grab files of the WAN.  This is the first time I have tried running
FTP on a PC (my 48K 8-bit 6502 was not up to the job of running FTP,
which was why I relied on the minis to do it, although it did do a passable
job with the Kermit protocol).
--- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.28
 * Origin: Pony's Corral BBS telnet://thecorral.tzo.com (1:101/805)

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